In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

While the human brain has about one million ... the raw wiring diagram between neurons is like knowing which structures on satellite images of the earth correspond to streets and buildings.

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex ... sophisticated as birds. This diagram compares the classic view of ...

Reflex actions are involuntary and do not necessarily involve the brain. Reflex actions protect the body from further damage by allowing it to react quickly to stimuli, such as high temperatures ...

The work of almost a decade, it's the largest and most detailed reproduction of the human brain to date down to the resolution of the synapses, the structures that allow neurons to transmit ...

Neuroscience examines the structure and function of the human brain and nervous system. Neuroscientists use cellular and molecular biology, anatomy and physiology, human behavior and cognition ...

The prefrontal cortex has a similar structure in both chimps ... macaque and human brain samples taken from the cortex. The human wiring diagram, or ‘connectome’, had 2.5 times more ...