What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and ...

A new study identifies two genes tied to brain size and synapse function, hidden in hard-to-sequence DNA repeats. Using ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...

This brain-mapping business is not a new endeavor. The first attempts, in the early 20th century, relied on surgeries, brain lesions, and morbid pipe-through-the-head accidents to tease out which ...

Previous studies charted 83 brain regions in each hemisphere of the brain – for example, Broca’s Area, which is thought to be responsible for speech production.

As we learn and experience, the connectome, or map of neural connections within our brain, changes. In the Emory experiment, two main classes of changes were seen.

By pairing this map with information about each neuron’s job in the brain—some respond to a visual input of vertical bars, for example—they derived a simple rule for how neurons in this part ...

A new map of the cerebral cortex greatly increases our understanding of the brain by revealing 97 areas in each of the brain's hemispheres that had not been previously identified.

The Brain Activity Map project could help, for instance, look at the neural connections involved in brushing teeth. “If we truly understand the code of how the brain does that, we could ...

Five Best: Books on the Brain. Selected by James R. Doty, the author of ‘Mind Magic: ... As an example, Ms. Greenberg cites Ted, who was paralyzed by the fear of losing his job.

The resulting map illustrates the staggering complexity of the brain. Despite its diminutive size, it contained more than 200,000 cells with 4 kilometres of branches between them, and 523 million ...