Study: Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain. Image Credit: Nature The evolution of brains around 500 million years ago played a crucial role in the development of complex behaviors.

All 139,255 brain cells in the brain of an adult fruit fly. Activity within these cells drives an entire organism, from ...

The average adult human brain ... processes work in the human brain is a discipline in neuroscience called connectomics, which aims to unveil the wiring diagrams of the nervous system.

A new study has revealed distinct features of the human hippocampus, a brain region critical for memory storage and retrieval, challenging the assumption that it functions like a scaled-up mouse brain ...

By age 3, it will have expanded to about 80 percent of adult size. While most of the brain’s neurons are thought to be created before birth, an explosion in neural connections, the myelination ...

The ability of the brain to elaborate new connections and neuronal circuits—neuroplasticity ... its five million kilometers of wiring, and its relationship to the rest of the mind and body.

Every week, Harvard Medical School neuro-oncologist Annie Hsieh treats patients with gliomas — the most common type of brain cancer ... that the gliomas hook into existing patterns of neuronal wiring.

It's the most detailed analysis of the brain of an adult animal ever produced ... So how can the wiring diagram of an insect brain help scientists learn how we think? The images the scientists ...