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Scientists have created a full map of an adult brain ... open and free to all researchers, in the hope of better understanding all brains. By understanding how a healthy brain works, we might ...

It is published in a pair of papers in Nature. The diagram of all 139,255 neurons in the adult fly brain is the first of an entire brain for an animal that can walk and see. Previous efforts have ...

While technological advancements enrich our lives, they also have an insidious effect: The ability to connect with vast stores of information introduces challenges to our brain’s functioning ...

Scientists announced on Thursday a milestone in neurobiological research with the mapping of the entire brain of an adult fruit fly, a feat that may provide insight into brains across the animal ...

The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers' understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly's ...

A Seattle-area startup called Thinkie has developed a wearable cloth headband with a sensor that monitors brain activity while users play games on a ... which is free to use without the device.

The head of a Princeton team that mapped the brain of an adult fruit fly -- a watershed step in understanding the human brain -- explains the feat in a way that belies its complexity. "Just like ...

Scientists have made an enormous step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap -- scientifically speaking, a 'connectome' -- through the brain ...

They do each of these things on the basis of sophisticated processing of sound, smell, touch and vision, organised and run by a brain composed of about 140,000 neurons—more than the 300 or so ...