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Researchers in a small but growing field search for neural correlates of religiosity and spirituality.

The Yale neuroscientist seeks to understand the brain’s architecture and function using C. elegans.

The connectomes trace 385 neurons in the male worm and 302 neurons in the hermaphrodite worm.

A super-bright cell-labeling method reveals the intricate wiring that connects neurons in the brain.

Synaptic connections and a new neuron type emerge in high-res images, which hold promise for mapping the complete connectome.

The brain’s structural connections are unique to an individual, a new imaging technique reveals.

Watch how researchers use RNA to track where neurons' axons end in the mouse brain.

Researchers swap microscopy for RNA sequencing to track neural paths in the mouse brain.
 

Barcodes of mRNA travel to the cells' axon terminals, offering a sequencing-based approach to neural mapping.

A new map of human cortex combines data from multiple imaging modalities and comprises 180 distinct regions.

Analyzing resting brain scans, researchers can anticipate the brain activities of a person performing a range of tasks. 

The complex connectivities of mammalian and avian brains can confound the outcomes of transient neural manipulations, researchers show.

Scientists document the characteristics and connections of mouse neocortical neurons to establish the most detailed microcircuit map to date.

With the help of a supercomputer, researchers have reconstructed part of a juvenile rat cortex.

Neural connectome patterns differ enough between people to use them as a fingerprint.

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Achievement represents the most detailed analysis of the mouse brain yet.

New PLOS data sharing rules; mouse cortical connectome published; reprogramming astrocytes into neurons and fibroblasts into hepatocytes

Researchers offer a freely available map of the connections throughout the mouse cortex.