In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

Within the past two decades, various countries have altered their approach to organ donation from seeking express consent to systems where agreement is deemed the normal viewpoint. This framework ...

After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision ...

Exploration of human brain tissue is pivotal for advancing neurology and improving public health, especially as the world faces a growing health crisis ...

Mobile genetic elements may be a source of DNA sequence variation in normal human brain tissue. Geoff Faulkner, now at the University of Queensland, and colleagues showed that retrotransposons, which ...

The way neurons inside the human brain function and communicate is being used as a roadmap for creating new artificial systems. But more strikingly, scientists now are trying to merge human ...

In the brain ... tissue from the Columbia BrainQUANT Institute’s biobank. A few months later, M.P. met with M.T.d.S. on holiday in France, bonding over their love of energy, neuroimaging and the ...

"But we don't have a way to look at bioenergetics across the entire human ... to heal the brain? Does the food you eat influence your mitochondria? Do energy constraints affect normal brain ...

In the course of evolution, this interplay has led to the human brain being unique in its size and complexity. The newly gained insights not only provide a deeper understanding of the evolutionary ...

To understand what makes some neurons more vulnerable than others at the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s, researchers at the UC San Francisco Memory and Aging Center examined brain tissue samples from ...