brain cells

Zombies rejoice! This is the beginning of the end of chasing down humans for a meal. Soon, you'll be able to sit in the shed and play Timesplitters 2 with Shaun and Ed. (If you haven't seen Shaun of the Dead, it's a fun little romp.) In…

Researchers at the University of Oxford may provide the mechanism to repair brain injuries, demonstrating that neural cells can be 3D printed to mimic the architecture of the cerebral cortex. The results are published today in the journal …

According to researchers at the Universities of Tübingen and Bonn, the brain has neurons that fire specifically during certain mathematical operations. Some neurons are active exclusively during addition and others during subtraction. The…

What’s operating when we have a visceral flash of recognition like we do when we see a familiar face (like grandma’s)? There’s been a search for the single brain cell responsible, a "grandmother neuron" that resides at the crossroads of…