To get a better sense, I spoke to Joe Dworetzky at Bay City News and Pulitzer-winner Mark Fiore, two established cartoonists ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people share the intuition that the creation and appreciation of art are important aspects of ... anterior insula — a region of the brain implicated in the experience of emotion.

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 ...

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. This landmark achievement has been conducted by a large ...

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 ...

The scientists also discovered that cells with hybrid neuron-glia characteristics are present in the non-tumor human brain, which they ... supported by state-of-the-art groups at Baylor.” ...