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While comparing neurons and transistors is a convenient metaphor (and not completely out of left field), the brain is ...

Scientists at UCSF combined advanced brain-network modeling, genetics, and imaging to reveal how tau protein travels through ...

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For decades, scientists have argued over one of neuroscience’s most fundamental questions: Can the adult human brain grow new ...