WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, ...

Scientists have created the first detailed wiring diagram of an insect brain. The brain, from a fruit fly larva, contained 3016 neurons connected by 548,000 synapses, the team reported Thursday in the ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

A study using wearable scanning technology has revealed how brain function differs in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). It ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

In the new study from the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego, volunteers were equipped with a MEG helmet and randomly instructed to make one of the gestures used in the game Rock Paper Scissors. A ...

A fruit fly larva is only a fraction of an inch long, and its brain is the size of a grain of salt. But that didn’t stop scientists from trying to get a complete picture of what’s inside the tiny ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...