Scientists have recently completed the most ambitious effort yet to construct such a map: a complete document of every neuron and every connection in the brain of an adult fruit fly. The research ...

In the brain of a singular fruit fly, nerve cells weave themselves together, enabling flight, mating, eating, sleeping and every other activity of her fly life. Now, in nine papers published ...

While that vision of pushing novel information directly into your brain is clearly fantasy, American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks we’ll only have to wait until 2045 for ...

Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. By Carl Zimmer A fruit fly’s brain is smaller than a poppy seed, but it packs ...

Here’s how your brain visualizes scenarios that you’re not actually looking at with your eyes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

This morning, surgeons at the University of Manchester temporarily placed a thin, Scotch-tape-like implant made of graphene on the patient’s cortex—the outermost layer of the brain.

The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought , finds a study 1 of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted ...

Antidepressant Shows Promise for Treating Brain Tumors Sep. 20, 2024 — Researchers have used a drug screening platform they developed to show that an antidepressant, currently on the market ...

Symptoms of depression fluctuate over time, but many brain imaging studies of the condition only study one point in time. That’s made it hard to connect networks of brain activity to various ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that surgeons could avoid them when removing a tumor ...

The brain is the part of the central nervous system that is contained within the skull. It is responsible for executive and cognitive functions and regulates the functioning of the other parts of ...

The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in ...