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The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

Months after UW Medicine neurosurgeons implanted a first-of-its-kind brain stimulation device in a stroke patient, doctors ...

The findings come from the most comprehensive computer model of brain metabolism to date, which incorporates more than 16,800 biochemical interactions between proteins and chemicals across brain cells ...

Research by a group of Seattle scientists may help doctors and drug companies target specific brain cells to help people keep their minds sharp as they age. Researchers at the Allen Institute for ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with other ...

Different populations of cells in the mouse brain, each one targeted with high specificity by one of the new genetic tools developed at the Allen Institute. (Allen Institute Image) The Allen Institute ...

The brain is the most energy-demanding organ in the body, in part due to its complexity. Its components are varied and intricate: comprising different cell types, including neurons designed to ...

A new open-source model of brain metabolism—the most complex ever generated—has shown how altering key chemicals could restore aged cells to their youthful activity and resilience. The researchers, ...