In a windowless room inside a London hospital, a newborn winces as a heel is pricked for a routine blood test. The response ...

In a nutshell Baby brains develop pain processing in stages, with sensory networks maturing first (34-36 weeks), emotional ...

Scientists have found 50 million reasons to study the brain of a fruit fly. That's how many connections they discovered in the first complete map— known as a connectome—of an adult insect's brain.

New research from University College London offers fresh insights into this puzzle. By mapping the development of ...

A majority neuroscientists think memories live on in the brains of the dead, and a large number believe these memories could ...

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.

“The connectome is the beginning of the digital transformation of brain science,” Seung said. “With a few keystrokes you can search for information and get the results in seconds. Some of that ...

Summary: Psychosis may start not with hallucinations, but with subtle motor changes like reduced grip strength. A new study ...

A new study from University College London highlights that newborns can sense pain even before they can comprehend it. The ...

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.