A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

“We thought if we wanted to find out if [animals] get traumatic brain injury or not, bighorn sheep would be the ones to look at,” she says. While the microglial clumps seen in human samples were rare ...

THE brain in sheep, as in non-ruminant mammals' appears dependent on glucose as the substrate for oxidation 1, yet the blood glucose concentration of adult sheep is only about 2.5 mM (50 mg/100 ml.) ...

There must be something about the human brain that’s different from the brains of other animals — something that enables humans to plan, imagine the future, solve crossword puzzles ...