It's an accomplishment that scientists have dreamed about for more than half a century. At last, a massive international team ...

Diagram of neuron connectivity (IMAGE) Johns Hopkins University. Caption. A diagram depicting the connectivity, where neurons are represented as points, and neurons with more similar ...

By Dr. Chinta Sidharthan Although neurobiological studies have long studied the various regions of the brain, there was an absence of information on the interconnectedness between the regions and the ...

A study has described how a gene mutation linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disrupts the stability of neurons and “chokes off” their nuclei, impairing their function, and suggests that an ...

The study used data from laboratory mice to establish a new method for examining relationships between neuron type and function, and focused on the mouse primary visual cortex, ...