This is not a work of art. It’s an image of microscopic blood flow in a rat’s brain, taken with one of many new tools that are yielding higher levels of detail in brain imaging. Here are seven more ...

Art and neuroscience have been intertwined for centuries. Early surgeons and scientists who poked and prodded inside cranial cavities—such as Santiago Ramón y Cajal—often drew what they saw. These ...

In order to understand how the brain works, neuroscientists need to take a close look at how neuron networks are wired together. However this isn’t easy, after all just one cubic millimeter in the ...

The Journal of Neuroscience is one of the most impactful journals in the field of neuroscience. The cover of the May, 26 2021 issue features an image from Assistant Professor Simon Pieraut’s paper, ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Listening to music in more realistic lab settings activates widespread brain areas involved in cognition, movement control, and emotion. The replication of previous findings validates naturalistic ...