A 10-year project produces both brain wiring diagram and a "parts list" — paving the way for greater understanding of human brain. Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, ...

White matter gets its color from myelin, a fatty substance that insulates nerve fibers (axons). This insulation speeds up the transmission of electrical signals between neurons. White matter is ...