Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a ...

Researchers studied the brain of a mouse while watching The Matrix and the results have been deemed awe-inspiring.

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

The team of scientists behind the project said the map of neuron wiring was so complex, it looked like a picture of a galaxy.

New research suggests the adult brain can be convinced to grow new neurons to replace those lost in Huntington’s disease. The ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine identified a direct connection between cancer-related inflammation and the loss of motivation ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 ...

The female sex hormone estrogen, along with progesterone, appears to underlie a fundamental difference in how males and females process pain, a mouse study finds.

Much like food poisoning, traumatic events are often followed by symptoms after a delay, and yet they still form vivid, persistent memories.

Instead of learning through repeated trial and error or experiences, one-shot learning is when a single experience creates a ...

Neurons communicate with each other by passing millisecond-long signals across tiny junctions ... a synaptic protein of interest in the mouse brain with a bright Janelia Fluor (JF) dye.