A new study from Austrian researchers suggests the brain begins life with an overly dense and disorganised network of ...
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Scientists discover 30% of your brain’s synapses are 'silent' — dormant connections waiting for the moment you need to learn something new
Picture a concert hall wired with thousands of microphones, but a third of them are switched off. The cables are run, the ...
Scientists found that mouse memory circuits start with many connections and then become more selective over time.
Brain tissue is an optical mess. Water, lipids, and tangled cellular membranes all bend light in different directions. If ...
A novel reversible, noninvasive technique to observe neuron formation and firing in juvenile mice has been developed. During childhood and adolescence, our brain goes through a lot of changes. But ...
Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...
The hippocampus follows a "tabula plena" model, starting with dense, random connections that are pruned into an efficient ...
A new computational method could dramatically accelerate efforts to map the body's cells in space, according to a study ...
The amount of sugar in the brain plays a key role in governing the activity of the brain cells that make myelin, a study ...
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