In 1953, Henry Gustav Molaison agreed to undergo experimental brain surgery in hopes of stopping the epileptic seizures and blackouts that had plagued him since age 10. The neurosurgeon William ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 4 (January 25, 2022), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) To further advance functional MRI (fMRI)–based brain science, ...

MAXIMILIAN ROSE, PROFESSOR OF NEUROLOGY AT WILNO UNIVERSITY, DIED SUDDENLY TODAY DURING A LECTURE. HE WAS 54 YEARS OLD. PROF. ROSE WAS THE SCIENTIST WHO DISSECTED THE BRAIN OF MARSHAL JOSEPH PILSUDSKI ...

The dissected fly brain is stained for tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity to visualize dopamine neurons. Tyrosine hydroxylase is a rate-limiting enzyme for dopamine biosynthesis and is present in ...

On one of the last days of his life, Albert Einstein was busy at his desk. He was working on a national television address marking Israel’s seventh anniversary as a sovereign nation and Jewish ...

Dendrites, the branch-like projections of neurons, were once thought to be passive wiring in the brain. But now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that these ...

Will Penny and his wife were going for a run on Oct. 30 in their Northwest Austin neighborhood. It wasn't even a difficult run, just 2.1 miles, something they had done regularly. This time, though, as ...