In the new study, the team wanted to investigate whether screening movies during fMRI scanning could give any insight into how the brain’s functional networks respond to a series of complex audio and ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...

Recent technological advances are allowing neuroscientists to map the human brain with increasing precision, highlighting ...

More than 25 years of development and testing have gone into reducing brain strain that results in concussions and severe ...

Shortly after 2 a.m. on a Saturday in a midtown Manhattan sports bar packed with Aussies, Dr. Tom Oxley was feeling stunned.

A person's brain performs an intricate juggling act while watching a movie, a new study demonstrates. Scans showed that 24 ...

A study published in Nature by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine changes the way we understand memory. Until now, ...

It's too late for Lenin, but the University of Pennsylvania's high-resolution MRI scan of a dead person's brain is full of detail. Ex vivo MRI of the brain provides remarkable advantages over in vivo ...

Led by neuroscientists Elizabeth Rizor and Viktoriya Babenko of the University of California Santa Barbara, a team of ...

In a small early trial using a transcranial magnetic stimulation procedure, scientists were able to target a key brain ...

The microglia, in turn, seem to benefit, revving up metabolism and phagocytosis. The liver protein ApoA-I was particularly good at bolstering the latter. Overall, the findings suggest that the brain’s ...