University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for ...

A new study shows that the brain's visual system adapts to your goals, reshaping perception based on what you're trying to do ...

In 1979, famed molecular biologist Francis Crick stated that it would be “impossible to create an exact wiring diagram for a ...

While not exact replicas of human organs ... Recent brain-region organoid models to test viral infections during brain development, however, did not include microglia which are usually present from ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

After observing brain ... in rodent models, researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) determined that type 2 diabetes can "rewire" the brain in ways similar to early-onset ...

This concept reminded reader Gary Pokorny of an early ... of how human brains develop, with an initial surfeit of neurons and connections that get gradually pared down as the brain is pruned ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.