A new computational method could dramatically accelerate efforts to map the body's cells in space, according to a study ...

Scientists have created a new way to map how brain cells connect by assigning each neuron a unique molecular “barcode.” Using ...

The networked-vs-list thinker question decides whether the app sticks.

The brain’s memory center may begin life more like a crowded web than an empty canvas. Researchers discovered that early ...

Individuals with high levels of psychopathy tend to struggle with feeling concern for others, and new research links these ...

BOSTON — Across traditions and centuries, contemplatives have described a similar inner movement: the ordinary sense of self loosens, the boundary between “me” and “everything else” grows permeable, ...

ME. AT MASS, GENERAL BRIGHAM RESEARCHERS ARE MAPPING ONE OF THE MOST VAST AND MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPES KNOWN TO SCIENCE A WORLD OF TRILLIONS OF CONNECTIONS. THE HUMAN BRAIN. WE HAVE MAPPED OUR ENTIRE ...

Real estate agents will tell you that a home’s most important feature is “location, location, location.” It’s similar in neuroscience: “Location is everything in the brain,” said Bosiljka Tasic, a ...

Organoids have helped create a comprehensive map showing how eight different genetic mutations associated with autism spectrum disorder affect early brain development. This work provides new insights ...

Doidge (2010), referring to a study undertaken by Michael Merzenich et al. (1983), found that “[w]hen it came to allocating brain‑processing power,” the brain allocated “[its] neurological resources” ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some psychiatric disorders. By Carl Zimmer Last year, Ardem Patapoutian got a ...