An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain were active throughout the day with single-cell resolution. Subscribe to our ...

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For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

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Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...

A key to understanding the brain lies in unpacking how hundreds of interconnected brain areas process information that leads to various outputs. In order to try to understand this, researchers ...