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Cerebellum

The cerebellum is a small section of the brain that sits in back, next to where the spinal cord attaches to the brain. Although the cerebellum constitutes only about 10% of the br...

Brain organoids uncover how primates develop different brain shapes

Most primate species have relatively large brains with surfaces marked by pronounced bulges and furrows. This is not the case with common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). The brains...

Human brain tissue grew to fill over 90% of missing cortex in mice

China builds the world’s smallest wearable brain monitor with a cortex-wide view

Chinese scientists have developed what they say is the world’s smallest wearable mini brain monitor that can track the activity of thousands of neurons at the same time. Weighing i...

Alzheimer’s Researchers Look at an Unusual Data Point: Head Shape

Could the geometry of our brains increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? It’s a provocative question, but one that some scientists are beginning to explore.

Scientists say the human brain is two different organs

Researchers at Stanford, Caltech, and UC San Francisco say that recent experiments with mice reveal that their brains are actually two different organs. They extended this finding...

The brain, solved

The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses