Is there a difference in brain structure between men and women? If we were to find such a difference in a single neuron, would it matter? One of the most useful models for studying these questions ...

Instead, most of us tend to see our brains as a "network" made of undifferentiated brain cells ... there was one neuron, for example, that began firing at the start of a clip from "The Simpsons ...

These paintings are both by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian but display strikingly different styles. The house on the left is representational; the colorful squares on the right are more abstract.

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in ...

And indeed, that’s been good enough to fuel decades of brain science. Single neuron recordings are otherwise ... and the consolations of art, On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of ...

NU scientists identified additional areas of the brain involved in the intent to ... organic electrochemical neuron that has similar sensory responses to human neurons, according to a recent ...

Enhancing new neuron generation could be a potential strategy to improve brain health and restore cognition in aging and in people with epilepsy or dementia. But for now, these ideas are just ...

Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester discovered that in some areas of the brain neuron density varies in children with autism when compared to the ...

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Scientists have recently completed the most ambitious effort yet to construct such a map: a complete document of every neuron and every connection in the brain of an adult fruit fly. The research ...

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly. The diagram of all 139,255 neurons in the adult fly brain ...

Schwartz: The Jennifer Aniston neuron comes from a study done by a neurosurgeon named Itzhak Fried, who was putting electrodes into the brain to treat epilepsy. He was able to record single ...