The brain's ability to track orientation and position is essential for memory, navigation, and decision-making. Traditionally ...

Red, orange, yellow, and green are excitatory neurons colored by size (red is largest, green is smallest) ranging from 15-30 micrometers across at their cores. The sample is approximately 3 mm long.

Ten years ago, Dr. Jeff Lichtman — a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University — received a small brain sample in his lab.. Although tiny, the 1 cubic millimeter of ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found. The ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Scientists announced on Thursday a milestone in neurobiological research with the mapping of the entire brain of an adult fruit fly, a feat that may provide insight ...

Now, after the lab team’s decade of close collaboration with scientists at Google, that data has turned into the most detailed map of a human brain sample ever created. 300 million images ...

Working from a sliver of tissue no bigger than a grain of rice, researchers have built an astoundingly complex map of the human brain. Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human ...