Background: Neurons have dominated neuroscience research for decades, but a growing body of evidence suggests that a group of non-neuronal brain cells called glia may play an equal or greater role in ...

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Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound and language may help them develop more normally, according to new research ...

An international team of Human Brain Project (HBP) researchers has mapped out neurotransmitter receptors across the macaque brain, defining key organizational principles in the brain, and revealing a ...

Men and women have "distinct brain organization patterns" according to a new Stanford Medicine study. The findings were published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" journal on ...

Stanford Medicine investigators reported on their development of a new artificial intelligence model that in tests was found to be more than 90% successful at determining whether MRI scans of human ...