A research team has identified genetic factors that influence the shape of subcortical brain regions—far beyond volume ...

Synapses – the junctions between two neurons – are formed in their millions during early life, and then pruned as the brain’s functions are refined over time. The actual transmission of ...

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Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells ... by scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Princeton University and Baylor College ...

Working long hours may alter the structure of your brain, a new study has found ... we've identified as the 'small print' of working life today," she said. "This captures those hidden or unspoken ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter ... preserved postmortem human brain; in the middle, 3D molecular architecture of β-amyloid plaque; at right, in-tissue structure of tau filaments ...

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