Imagine for a moment if we could build a complete wiring diagram of a human brain – to map in detail every one of the hundred trillion or so synapses and roughly hundred billion neurons together ...

Researchers have mapped the more than 500,000 connections in the intricate brain of a fruit fly larva. This map, they say, could help scientists figure out how learning changes the human brain, too.

“It is possible that we could do this for the human brain, but from this viewpoint, it still is unimaginable. A lot can happen in 46 years. Certainly a lot has happened in the 46 years since ...

Neuroscientists have used data from the human brain connectome -- a publicly available 'wiring diagram' of the human brain based on data from thousands of healthy human volunteers -- to reassess ...

Incredible 3D diagram lets you zoom into a brain like Google Maps. By Joshua ... That’s why scientists needed to look elsewhere for ways to practice wiring out the complexity of the human brain.

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement ...

The human brain is composed of billions of neurons wired together in intricate webs and communicating through electrical pulses and chemical signals. Although neuroscientists have made progress in ...

In a world first, Harvard biologists worked with Google to diagram a cubic millimeter of human cerebral cortex at the subcellular level, paving the way for the next generation of brain science.

One possibility is the brain's wiring diagram or "connectome". The human brain contains around 86 billion specialised cells called neurons, which connect to each other and send signals back and forth.

You are involved in two very large-scale efforts: to map the mouse and human brain. Can you tell us more about the challenges? Well, connectomics is a pipeline.

Scientists at the Allen Institute, a research center in Seattle, then sliced that piece of the mouse’s brain into more than 25,000 layers, each a tiny fraction of the width of a human hair, and ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse’s cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement ...