Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

If we can fully map the structure of our brains, will we be able to understand how they work? That is the goal of researchers attempting to build a wiring diagram, or connectome, of our neural ...

Do you want to improve the structure and function of your brain? Research at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign continues to ...

Super-resolution microscopes have revealed a whole new type of connection between neurons in mouse and human brains. In the ...

In the late 1800s, Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal drew hundreds of images of neurons. His exquisite work influenced our understanding of what they look like: Cells with a bulbous center ...

Deep in the bowels of Green Hall, professors aren't the only ones making noise. The monkeys are just as loud. In elaborate cages packed with spinach and other greens, colorful obstacles and ...

Poets and songwriters claim that love lives in our hearts. And, while it’s true that being in love can change the way our heart operates, and even help it remain healthy (1), most of what goes on when ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved ...