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Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

At that time, the hormone was thought to protect the aging brain against stroke and Alzheimer’s, an idea supported by numerous animal studies and a few observational human studies. The tide ...

Next, a second group dissected that same brain region, dividing it into layers 1/400th the width of a human hair, and took pictures of each slice. Due to the delicate nature of the structure ...

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 ...

For the brain, we’ll need a cellular parts list and an idea of how they work together. The project analyzed a tiny chunk of a mouse’s visual cortex sliced into over 28,000 pieces, each more than a ...

poorly understood neural structures underlying human reasoning. “Our findings show a close connection between the right frontal brain network involved in reasoning and the right frontal brain ...

“By combining a detailed cognitive investigation in a large sample of brain-damaged patients with advanced lesion mapping techniques, we have deepened our understanding of the complex and, so far, ...

The only brain map of comparable scale is that of 1 cubic millimetre of human brain, which included 16,000 neurons and 150 million synapses 2. The new map also captured the activity of tens of ...