The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

Observational studies of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression have long tied ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

Like most brain references, the detailed map of a single human brain is available online. The Allen Institute for Brain Science’s reference atlas shows brain structure down to the cellular level ...

MRI scans provide images of the brain but don’t show changes in the composition of the human brain, changes that could potentially differentiate normal aging from the beginnings of Alzheimer’s or ...

We’re closer than ever to mapping the entire brain to the microscopic level. Hundreds of neuroscientists across the world recently characterized more than 3,000 human brain cell types as part of ...

Though it represents just one-millionth of the total brain volume, it is the most detailed map of a piece of human brain matter ever created. ... brain structure, and the origins of our behavior.

Gray matter is made up of neuron cell bodies and dendrites and is responsible for processing and interpreting information, ...

In the years since the 2013 debut of human brain organoids, research groups have worked to grow bigger brain tissue clumps and more uniform structures. ... composition and structure.