The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly. This landmark achievement has been conducted by a large ...

Much like camera settings—filters, flashes and focus—affect what we notice in a final photo, the way scientists measure ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date—a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge ...

FOR BILLIONS of years, life was single-celled and boring. Even when it became multicellular and more interesting, it took the evolution of brains, and subsequent competition between them via the ...

Chinese researchers have developed a memory chip that can model complex brain structures in ...

Summary: Researchers tracked brain activity patterns in participants before and after they watched multiple episodes of a ...