It’s quite the understatement to say that at this point in time we don’t quite understand how even the tiniest brain works exactly. Much of this is due to the sheer complexity and ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain’s wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June ...

To this day, critical procedures in neurosurgery and neuromodulation for patients with devastating diseases are guided by knowledge on how the brain is wired that derives largely from animal studies.

The Wiley Foundation honored research into connectomes — detailed atlases of the brain that map out thousands of neurons and the millions of connection between them.

Researchers have found evidence for a theory that views intelligence as a property of how the brain functions as a whole, rather than relating it to a specific ...

Study supports theory that intelligence reflects system-wide brain network coordination, not any single region ...

Brain FC uniqueness is lower in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) at the whole-brain level, frontoparietal, and sensorimotor networks. Furthermore, FC uniqueness correlated negatively with ...