The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

Stressed brain cells can survive longer by slowing sugar use, revealing a short-term protective response that later turns ...

Brains are bewilderingly complicated systems of connections between neurons. Mapping those connections is an important step in understanding how brains work. Scientists have recently completed the ...

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 ...

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