Brain teasers offer more than just entertainment, they help in boosting brain health. A recent viral puzzle, “I Have 4 Brothers And Each Brother Has 4 Brothers,” has intrigued many. Want to know the ...

" width="1200" height="675" /> Brain teasers test more than just your intelligence—they put your critical thinking, logical ...

“You might be asking why we should care about the brain of a fruit fly,” Seung tells the Guardian’s Ian Sample. “My simple answer is that if we can truly understand how any brain ...

For any newcomers joining us, here’s how to play Quordle: Just start typing in words. You have four five-letter words to guess and nine attempts to find them all. The catch is that you play all ...

Scientists have recently completed the most ambitious effort yet to construct such a map: a complete document of every neuron and every connection in the brain ... The short answer is: most ...

Those maps will help answer big questions about brain connectomes — whether they’re variable among individuals, if they change over time, and whether they can help predict behaviors.

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

Previous researchers mapped the brain of a C. elegans worm, with its 302 neurons, and the brain of a larval fruit fly, which had 3,000 neurons, but the adult fruit fly is several orders of ...

Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge number of cells and cell connections. It took almost 50 labs around the world to create a new neural map, or connectome, of an adult ...

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They do each of these things on the basis of sophisticated processing of sound, smell, touch and vision, organised and run by a brain composed of about 140,000 neurons—more than the 300 or so ...

Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in arm and hand strength and function weakened by traumatic brain injury or stroke. Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate ...