Brain tissue is an optical mess. Water, lipids, and tangled cellular membranes all bend light in different directions. If ...
A novel reversible, noninvasive technique to observe neuron formation and firing in juvenile mice has been developed. During childhood and adolescence, our brain goes through a lot of changes. But ...
Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...
The hippocampus follows a "tabula plena" model, starting with dense, random connections that are pruned into an efficient ...
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain cancer in adults, killing most patients within two years of diagnosis ...
The amount of sugar in the brain plays a key role in governing the activity of the brain cells that make myelin, a study ...