Researchers from Harvard University and Google have unveiled an intricate wiring diagram of the human brain from a tiny piece of cerebral cortex tissue. The map details 57,000 cells and 150 million ...

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 ...

Scientists this week announced that they had succeeded in communicating with a man thought to be in a vegetative state, lacking all awareness, for five years following a road accident. Using a brain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In the classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson, characters can save their consciousness to a hard drive so that their personalities will live on inside a machine. When the novel was ...