Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

A recent study found that the degree to which a person possesses autistic traits is linked to how their brain processes ...

If we can model a fly brain, and run that fly in a sim, we might do it with us. We live in the age of the brain, and ...

Synchronisation in neural activity between regions is observed throughout the human brain 1. These macroscale dynamic activity patterns form distinct functional networks of activity across multiple ...

Neuroimaging revealed that prolonged wakefulness strengthened synaptic connections which could saturate learning capacity, ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, identifying two molecules that must be present before synapses, the ...

Scientists from the Nencki Institute and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have revealed a key mechanism in how our brains change when we learn new information or form memories. A new ...