While past research has hinted at an overlap in relevant brain regions, the new work drills down to the cellular level. The ...

Chandigarh: Experts at the PGI human brain bank have started extracting DNA from preserved brain tissue. The purpose is to ...

Seemingly unrelated diseases and conditions like Alzheimer's disease, obesity, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, and ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

The brain has its own immune system, which detects threats and mounts a defense. A growing body of evidence has shown that in ...

Researchers at Boston University have discovered a surprising mechanism in the brains of zebra ...

Scientists mapped human brain development in Down syndrome at a cellular level, discovering that stem cells "rush" to become ...

The Individual Brain Charting (IBC) project has released its fifth and largest update of high-resolution fMRI data, adding a new set of cognitive tasks to one of the most detailed brain-mapping ...

The human brain, weighing roughly three pounds, runs the full spectrum of cognition, motor control, sensory processing, and emotional regulation on a power budget estimated at 10 to 20 watts. That is ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain.