For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known ...

Researchers at the University of Glasgow just achieved what many thought impossible: transmitting light completely through an adult human head from one temple to the other.

For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known ...

The cerebral cortex, the outermost layer of the brain, is the central driver of various human capabilities, including ...

You’re seeing hundreds of images mosaic together to encompass the whole fly brain from tip to tip.” On a large monitor, the ...

Two of the goals of that program are to generate a detailed wiring diagram for the complete mouse brain, and to map long-distance connections between different areas of the human brain.

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional ... that could offer insight into how the human brain works. They worked out the cerebral ...

we combined the locations of cortical atrophy in patients with idiopathic generalized seizures with a 'wiring diagram' of the human brain, also called a connectome. With the help of this ...

While it might not be a map of the human brain, getting a better ... have managed to create a complete wiring diagram of an entire fruit fly brain, the fruits (pun intended) of their labors ...

An adult fruit fly’s brain is much more complex, however—and most importantly, the small insects share 60 percent of human DNA, as well 75 percent of the genes that cause genetic diseases ...

We have a million times as many brain cells, or neurons, than the fruit fly which was studied. So how can the wiring diagram of an insect ... That is a view backed by Dr Lucia Prieto Godino ...