When Google released a complete 3D map of an adult male fruit fly’s central nervous system, scientists celebrated it for its ...

Researchers published a complete map of a male fruit fly’s nervous system, and programmers are already making it play video ...

Scientists have finished mapping every neuron and synaptic connection in the brain and central nervous system of an adult ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized.

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have used a new brain-mapping technique to identify memory-related brain cells vulnerable to protein buildup, a key factor in the development of Alzheimer's disease, an incurable, ...