In mouse brains, star-shaped astrocytes form flexible networks that may offer another way for brain regions to communicate.

A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain ...

The brain’s memory center may begin life more like a crowded web than an empty canvas. Researchers discovered that early ...

Webs of star-shaped cells called astrocytes connect distant parts of the brain, allowing long-distance exchange of molecules.

The human brain can concurrently support a wide range of advanced mental functions, including attention, memory and the processing of sensory stimuli. While past neuroscience studies have gathered ...

Researchers identify the rostral prefrontal cortex as the essential bridge between spontaneous and executive brain networks ...

The Brain Modeling Toolkit (BMTK) is an open-source platform for creating, simulating, and analyzing neural networks at multiple biological scales. Paired with BMTool and high-performance computing, ...

ME. AT MASS, GENERAL BRIGHAM RESEARCHERS ARE MAPPING ONE OF THE MOST VAST AND MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPES KNOWN TO SCIENCE A WORLD OF TRILLIONS OF CONNECTIONS. THE HUMAN BRAIN. WE HAVE MAPPED OUR ENTIRE ...

Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, according to a new ...