A new study led by Monash University researchers has shed light on the factors shaping the intricate wiring of our brains.

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

A recent study found that the degree to which a person possesses autistic traits is linked to how their brain processes ...

Synchronisation in neural activity between regions is observed throughout the human brain 1. These macroscale dynamic activity patterns form distinct functional networks of activity across multiple ...

A night without sleep produced increased markers of connections between brain cells, showing that sleep in humans may be important for restoring cellular balance in the brain, according to a study ...

Neurological conditions account for millions of deaths per year and induce long-lasting cognitive impairments. The disruption of structural brain networks predicts the emergence of cognitive ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, identifying two molecules that must be present before synapses, the ...

Neuroimaging revealed that prolonged wakefulness strengthened synaptic connections which could saturate learning capacity, ...