Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a ...

These mysterious structures have revolutionized our understanding of brain plasticity and development while opening new therapeutic avenues for various neuropsychiatric conditions. Silent synapse ...

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

Are they captured by a static map of cells and synapses ... for a mind to exist outside a brain? One immediately thinks of the disembodied HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey. But Koene sees no reason ...

Kennedy, say, or the explosion of the space ... brain has 100 billion neurons in all), changing the way they communicate. Neurons send messages to one another across narrow gaps called synapses.

This process of learning and remembering new information strengthens important connections in your brain. Recalling ...

Scientists have used gene editing to produce artificial electrical synapses in mice, where they can be targeted to make the ...

He builds brains for a living, then sends them on missions to outer space. Motivated by curiosity and creativity, his work is advancing scientists’ understanding of brain development and aging. In ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...