11 h. ago A woman donated her brain so scientists could study a pioneering treatment. A laboratory accidentally threw it out

"They tossed out her brain. How can you do that with a brain?" Arlo Fellenz, the mother of the young woman who died, asked.

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62 h. ago Terrifying brain glitch discovered that instantly leaves millions of people feeling lost and confused

Scientists have discovered a new brain glitch that is the exact opposite of deja vu: the eerie feeling of having experienced a situation before, even though you haven't.

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63 h. ago Scientists discover terrifying new brain glitch that millions suffer every day: 'Opposite of Deja vu'

Scientists have discovered a new brain glitch that is the exact opposite of deja vu: the eerie feeling of having experienced a situation before, even though you haven't.

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6 d. ago There are specific brain cells that enable intelligent behaviour, scientists say

Mohamady El-Gaby reports on which brain cells are behind human intelligent behaviour

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8 d. ago Scientists are using living human brain tissue to study Alzheimer's on their hunt for a cure

The team from the University of Edinburgh used the healthy brain tissue from living NHS patients and exposed it to a protein linked to Alzheimer's, from patients who passed away from it.

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8 d. ago Scientists use live human brain tissue to speed up hunt for dementia cure

Exclusive: British team exposed live cells to toxic proteins to gather rare insight into how dementia developsScientists have used living human brain tissue to mimic the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, in a breakthrough that will accelerate the hunt for a cure.In a world first, a British team successfully exposed healthy brain tissue from living NHS patients to a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer’s – taken from patients who died from the disease – to show how it damages connections between brain cells in real time. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago It’s complicated: Awkward marriage of Maresca and Chelsea provides great drama | Barney Ronay

Enzo Maresca loves controlled buildup play from the back. Chelsea fans tend to like forceful, direct football. Conflict of some kind always seemed inevitableThere was a new story this week about a team of a hundred scientists who have spent nine years analysing a single cubic millimetre of mouse brain. The one hundred scientists have finally published their results. And those results are basically: “Whoah, have you seen this stuff?”What they found inside the cubic millimetre of mouse brain was an eternity of wiring, just miles and miles of tiny wire to be untangled, pictured in the accompanying article clumped into a single mass, like a pan of mouse brain vermicelli left overnight in the sink. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Breakthrough as scientists discover how the human brain solves new problems

Researchers have developed tests that can be used to assess a person’s reasoning skills

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3 w. ago The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – an Audio Long Read podcast

Alexandra Morton-Hayward is using cutting-edge methods to crack the secrets of ancient brains – even as hers betrays herThere are more Audio Long Reads here, or search Audio Long Read wherever you listen to your podcasts Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Exact number of weekly alcoholic drinks scientists have linked to brain damage

Consuming more than a certain number of drinks a week is linked to signs of brain injury, a new study has found

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4 w. ago Scientists reveal a popular color doesn't exist... it's just your brain playing tricks

Science says this popular color doesn't actually exist. In fact, it's just your brain playing tricks on you. See if YOUR favorite color has been an illusion all along.

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4 w. ago Scientists reveal purple doesn't exist... it's just your brain playing tricks

Science says this popular color doesn't actually exist. In fact, it's just your brain playing tricks on you. See if YOUR favorite color has been an illusion all along.

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4 w. ago US scientists create most comprehensive circuit diagram of mammalian brain

3D map of a cubic millimetre of mouse brain reveals half a billion synapses and 5.4km of neuronal wiringThe most comprehensive circuit diagram of neurons in a mammalian brain has been created by scientists, providing groundbreaking insights into the mystery of how the brain works.The map is of a speck of a mouse’s visual cortex, smaller than a grain of sand, and traces the structure of 84,000 neurons linked by half a billion synapses and approximately 5.4km of neuronal wiring. The 3D reconstruction of the cubic millimetre of brain is helping uncover how the brain is organised and how different cell types work together, and could have implications for the understanding of intelligence, consciousness and neuronal conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, autism and schizophrenia. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Scientists map part of a mouse's brain that's so complex it looks like a galaxy

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date

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