Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

You probably have a general understanding of the human brain ... Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve cells, or neurons. This means that a concept ...

Neural networks generate abstract images designed to activate particular cells ... to try and understand what is represented in different parts of the brain,” says neuroscientist Andreas Tolias of ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. A study by ...

Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center have gained greater clarity in the brain regions and neurons that control metabolism, body temperature and energy use. Featured in the February ...

A new study probing quantum phenomena in neurons as they transmit messages in the brain could provide fresh insight into how our brains function. Our brains process information via a vast network ...

Brains are adaptable and flexible. Commonly, the brain cells or neurons were believed to remain permanently into the specific type they were formed. Each type has a different function. But a study ...

Published in Cell Reports, the study confirms that neurons can distinguish objects or people regardless of their context, ...

Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center have gained greater clarity in the brain regions and neurons that control metabolism, body temperature and energy use. Featured in the February ...