There's a quiet irony at the center of modern neuroscience. The more precisely researchers can peer inside the brain, with ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

ME. AT MASS, GENERAL BRIGHAM RESEARCHERS ARE MAPPING ONE OF THE MOST VAST AND MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPES KNOWN TO SCIENCE A WORLD OF TRILLIONS OF CONNECTIONS. THE HUMAN BRAIN. WE HAVE MAPPED OUR ENTIRE ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

A human brain network associated with survival in children with diffuse midline glioma (DMG), the deadliest childhood brain ...

The screen worked, flagging expected cancer genes. But it also kept returning something that seemed impossible: genes for synapses, glutamate receptors, and neural signaling pathways. “We absolutely ...

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) sound like science fiction to most people. But this technology is getting real, quickly.

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A new study found two recurring brain connectivity patterns in autism. One was linked to synapses and the other to immune ...