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.

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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 ...

Whether or not adolescence should be treated as a special period, there is now no doubt that the brain ... adults. In summary, these changes in the adolescent brain represent a period of ‘pruning, ...

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.