Sometimes, drastic measures have to be taken to save a human life. One of the most drastic procedures in neurosurgery is a hemispherectomy, the complete removal of one of the halves (or hemispheres) ...
In the brain, highly specific connections called synapses link nerve cells and transmit electrical signals in a targeted manner. Despite decades of research, how synapses form during brain development ...
When thinking, the human brain performs a true masterpiece of information processing: around 100 billion neurons communicate with each other via approximately 100 trillion connections. An ...