Detail of a pyramidal cell. Dendrites are red and orange. The axon is blue. Source: Allen Institute for Brain Science Neuroscience got its start more than 100 years ago when Santiago Ramon y Cajal and ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Rogier Mars receives funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) UK and the Medical Research Council (MRC) UK. Katherine Bryant does not work for, consult, own ...