Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're all connected.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a ...

If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive brain-wide presynaptic inputs that encode behavioral states, refining our ...

In higher brain structures involved in cognition, such as the cerebral cortex and hippocampus ... wild-type rats using a high-affinity antibody labeled with an affinity tag.