Among the critical findings are discoveries about the unique functions of human brain cells known as neurons and glia, non-neuronal cells in the nervous system that support, protect, and nourish ...

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized.

So President Obama has proposed a Brain Activity Map (BAM) project to reveal some of these remaining secrets, using the Human Genome Project as a model. Not all scientists, however, are on board.

Clock genes are a set of genes known to contribute to the regulation of the human body's internal 24-hour cycle, also known as the circadian rhythm. One of these genes is the so-called CLOCK gene ...

You might be surprised by the number.Although the human brain is capable of sifting through a billion bits of information per second, scientists recently found that the top speed of human thought ...

Higher-order connectomics of human brain function reveals local topological signatures of task decoding, individual identification, and behavior. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038 ...