Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section of a mammalian brain. This feat, part of the MICrONS Project, rivals the ...

At some point in your life, you must've experienced a lightbulb moment when an amazing idea just popped into your head out of nowhere. But what is your brain doing during these brief periods of ...

Generating a complete multimodal cell census and atlas of the mouse brain through collaborative data collection, tool development and analysis. This atlas combines single-cell transcriptomic ...

and specific areas within the hippocampus (the part of the brain that helps with learning, memory, and spatial navigation). All participants underwent standardised tests to assess their verbal memory.

For example, a loss of dopamine activity is a part of Parkinson’s disease ... considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal ...

In all, they collected data that covers about 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) of neuronal wiring in a part of the brain that processes visual information from the eyes. Sign up here. "The millions of ...