When the model was extended to every cubic millimeter of the standard brain reference, it produced three-dimensional maps that align with known imaging measures of brain evolution and variability.

What happened A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature. Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million ...

The struggle of the mind to fathom the brain it inhabits is the most circular kind of search–the cognitive equivalent of M.C. Escher’s lithograph of two hands drawing one another.

The complexity of the human brain—86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections—enables abstract thinking, language acquisition, advanced reasoning and problem-solving, and ...