An advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) brain scan analysis in patients with stroke-related, small vessel disease helped predict problems with […]
Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide through narrow, winding pathways, such as the […]
Painting a bigger biosociological picture of chronic pain
An integrated approach that unifies psychosocial factors with neurobiology sheds light on chronic pain traits and their underlying brain networks, […]
Pores for thought: Ion channel study beckons first whole-brain simulation: Blue Brain Project’s ‘Channelpedia’ is open to brain modellers and pharmacologists everywhere
Pores at the surface of neurons and muscle cells control your every thought, movement; the very beating of your heart. […]
Tissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s
Beta-amyloid plaques, the protein aggregates that form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, disrupt many brain functions and can kill […]
What the brains of people with excellent general knowledge look like: Some people seem to have an answer to every general knowledge question; why?
The brains of people with excellent general knowledge are particularly efficiently wired. This was shown by neuroscientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum […]
How mammals’ brains evolved to distinguish odors is nothing to sniff at: Study finds that the relationship of ‘distributed circuit’ components scales across species
The world is filled with millions upon millions of distinct smells, but how mammals’ brains evolved to tell them apart […]
Deciphering how the brain encodes color and shape: Study reveals how the brain processes the external world using overlapping visual circuits
There are hundreds of thousands of distinct colors and shapes that a person can distinguish visually, but how does the […]
Step towards light-based, brain-like computing chip
A technology that functions like a brain? In these times of artificial intelligence, this no longer seems so far-fetched — […]
Dataset bridges human vision and machine learning: Neuroscience, computer vision collaborate to better understand visual information processing
Neuroscientists and computer vision scientists say a new dataset of unprecedented size — comprising brain scans of four volunteers who […]