"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new package of papers examines the largest map yet of mammalian brain tissue. The map shows one cubic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The brain’s map of the body in the primary somatosensory cortex remains unchanged after amputation. (Zephyr/Science Source) A ...

From the smallest fragment of brain tissue, the intricate blueprint of the entire brain is beginning to emerge. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine are making several time-consuming aspects of ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found that the brain holds a ‘map’ of the body that remains unchanged even after a limb has been amputated, contrary to the prevailing view that it ...

A popular technique for studying brain disorders, known as lesion network mapping (LNM), appears to have a fundamental ...

(CNN) — Neuroscientists from 22 labs joined forces in an unprecedented international partnership to produce a landmark achievement: a neural map that shows activity across the entire brain during ...

For decades, researchers have attempted to pinpoint the specific areas of the brain responsible for human intelligence. A new ...

Brain activity maps for the hand (shown in red) and lips (blue) before the amputation (Pre1 and Pre2) and after amputation (3, 6 and 18 months post-amputation). The brain holds a ‘map’ of the body ...

New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Cambridge University upends a long-standing belief about brain plasticity. A study published today in Nature Neuroscience shows ...

A new comprehensive analysis has revealed that major depressive disorder alters both the physical architecture and the ...

Doidge (2010), referring to a study undertaken by Michael Merzenich et al. (1983), found that “[w]hen it came to allocating brain‑processing power,” the brain allocated “[its] neurological resources” ...