New research reveals that prion disease mutations can alter the structure of neuron synapses long before symptoms emerge.

Brains are bewilderingly complicated systems of connections between neurons. Mapping those connections is an important step ...

Scientists have made an enormous step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap -- scientifically speaking, a 'connectome' -- through the brain ...

An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and ...

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly.

Researchers have created the first neuron-by-neuron map of an adult fruit fly brain, marking a major achievement in brain ...

A map of 139,205 neurons and over 50 million synapses in the brain of an adult fruit fly / Image courtesy: Tyler Sloan, Amy Sterling / FlyWire / Princeton | Cell And Molecular Biology ...

Researchers described their work Oct. 2 in a special issue of the journal Nature. They created a neuron-by-neuron and synapse ...