It remains unclear whether typical mice rely on the same circuitry to learn the maze. But a separate preprint by an ...

The animal has a brain structure all its own, according to a preprint. The finding hints that brains evolved centralization ...

Michael Cole explains how “brain flows” are the fundamental units of brain function and cognition.

Activity flows are the movements of activity between neural populations. These dynamic neural processes are nothing short of the animating force of the brain, the very essence of what makes the brain ...

Pruning method: Many neurons in the prenatal brain are rife with copy number variants, most of which are eliminated before birth or shortly thereafter, a new study reports. Investigators conducted ...

Professor of neuroscience and psychology Rutgers University-Newark ...

Stanford University’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is launching a new large-scale brain imaging project to create a digital twin of the human brain, the institute announced today. The team behind ...

The U.S. government has touted organoids as an alternative to animals for studying the brain. The model has improved since its debut in 2013, but scientists are still working to overcome key ...

Then, in the 1980s, the genetic revolution arrived, bringing with it the concrete information that embryologists had long ...