When researchers at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus set out to create a map of all the neurons in the fruit fly brain in 2008, ...
Preparation of an entire brain for imaging at the necessary resolution requires a distinct set of skills, as does ...
A fruit fly can taste food all over its body. New research shows how those signals travel through the brain to control eating ...
A new map of the adult male fruit fly brain and nerve cord includes over 166,000 neurons and the millions of connections ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new package of papers examines the largest map yet of mammalian brain tissue. The map shows one cubic ...
To map connections between neurons, researchers need to be able to generate electrical signals and monitor how they propagate across synapses connecting pairs of neurons. Conventional approaches to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visualization of 75,000 neurons (colored dots) active across the brain of an adult mouse across different stages of a ...
Depression doesn’t mean you’re always feeling low. Sure, most times it’s hard to crawl out of bed or get motivated. Once in a while, however, you feel a spark of your old self—only to get sucked back ...
A popular technique for studying brain disorders, known as lesion network mapping (LNM), appears to have a fundamental limitation. This is the conclusion of neuroscientists from Vrije Universiteit ...
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 ...