Scientists have introduced two groundbreaking tools—PhysMAP and an active pixel power control laser system—that offer unprecedented precision in identifying and manipulating brain cell activity.

The Individual Brain Charting (IBC) project has released its fifth and largest update of high-resolution fMRI data, adding a new set of cognitive tasks to one of the most detailed brain-mapping ...

After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain, revealing the exquisite structures and ...

The Individual Brain Charting (IBC) project has released its fifth and largest update of high-resolution fMRI data, adding a ...

The Bell Jar project team at UC Santa Cruz: from left to right are postdoc Richard Dickson, graduate student Matthew Jacobs, Alec Soronow, and Euiseok Kim. (Photo by Carolyn Lagatutta) UC Santa Cruz ...

A new brain-mapping neurotechnology called Single Transcriptome Assisted Rabies Tracing (START) combines two technologies—monosynaptic rabies virus tracing and single-cell transcriptomics—to map the ...

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...

In a July 2018 MIT News article, “ Charting the Cerebellum, ” first author Xavier Guell of MIT's McGovern Institute of Brain Research, describes his team’s state-of-the-art mapping of motor and ...

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Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, profoundly alters brain function by interacting with serotonin receptors ...