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.

elegans researchers interested in nervous system wiring and circuit function ... We analyze a series of published C. elegans brain neuropils and demonstrate how these integrated representations of ...

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 ...

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.

Researchers are pulling back the curtain on one of neuroscience's most fascinating puzzles, revealing what's really going on inside the brain's "black box." ...

In certain areas of the brain, information is encoded and stored as "neuronal ensembles," or groups of neurons that fire together. Ensembles change based on input signals from the environment ...

Your brain can still make new neurons when you're an adult. But how does the rare birth ... to restore cognition in people. Enhancing new neuron generation could be a potential strategy to improve ...