Nearly 7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, a number the Alzheimer’s Association projects will reach ...

The Brain Initiative, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has so far identified 3,000 different brain cell types. Many scientists have compared the initiative to the human genome ...

Baylor College of Medicine researchers Dr. Sarah Heilbronner, associate professor of neurosurgery, and Dr. Andreas Tolias, professor of neuroscience, each have been awarded a grant from the National ...

An intense international effort to improve the resolution of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for studying the human brain has culminated in an ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner that records up to ...

In a tour de force for neuroscience, teams of researchers have published a voluminous set of brain-cell atlases for humans and other primates. The atlases are detailed in 21 research papers appearing ...

HOUSTON, Jan. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Rice University launched the Global Brain Economy Initiative (GBEI) Jan. 21 during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This ...

In 21 papers published as a package Thursday, researchers have provided a new map of the human brain, refining the resolution, as one scientist described it, from a rough outline of a shoreline to a ...

The human brain has 170 BILLION cells. And scientists have discovered more than 3,000 different brain cells types. A new, largest-of-its-kind map of these cells could help scientists understand what ...

John Ngai, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative, and U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman visited in May with Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) researchers to discuss ...

Psychiatric disorders affect millions worldwide, but their diagnosis still relies on clinical observation instead of standard ...

Still from Sibra, the Human Brain Project's Open Access Platform designed to explore their multi-level brain atlases. Source: Human Brain Project / ebrains This fall, Europe's Human Brain Project (HPB ...