What’s so special about the human brain? What distinguishes the human brain from the brains of other animals? These intriguing questions have been approached from many directions, but here the focus ...

NextBrain released an open-to-the-public brain atlas that outperforms previous models in terms of resolution and ...

"It's been hard for the neuroscience community to take a step back from this old school interpretation that the brain is this blank slate," said the study's senior author, UCSC assistant professor Tal ...

COVID-19 does not just affect the respiratory system, but also significantly alters the brain in people who have fully ...

Allen Institute researchers Leila Elabbady and Clay Reid examine brain mapping data from the MICrONS project. (Allen Institute Photo) Researchers say they’ve accomplished a feat that was said to be ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages ...