Medical Xpress

A new look at how the brain works reveals that wiring isn't everything

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give ...
UCLA Health

Stem cell-derived brain models offer a new window into how anesthesia works

UCLA researchers show for the first time that human brain assembloids can reproduce the hallmark electrical changes seen ...
Futurity News

How your brain and body work together to shape experience

New research digs into how the heart, lungs, and brain work together to shape experience. We speak of “butterflies in the stomach,” a “racing heart,” being “choked up,” or needing to “catch our ...
Medical Xpress

Brain activity maps challenge traditional descriptions of prefrontal cortex

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations ...
Stanford Daily

Group averages obscure how an individual’s brain controls behavior, Stanford Medicine study finds

Studying cognition by averaging data from many people’s brain scans hides how individuals use their brains, new Stanford Medicine research has shown. In particular, children who struggle with ...