Research hints that medications like Zepbound and Wegovy could provide new ways to treat opioid and alcohol abuse.

The authors suggest that this sequence is not a mere byproduct of evolution but could be adaptive in some contexts. According ...

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Researchers, supported by the NIH's BRAIN Initiative, have created a comprehensive map of the fruit fly brain, identifying ...

While that vision of pushing novel information directly into your brain is clearly fantasy, American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks we’ll only have to wait until 2045 for ...

PRINCETON, N.J. — For the first time, neuroscientists have just finished mapping out the entire brain of an adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). The research reveals the most complete map of a ...

Led by Professor Jianfeng Feng, the research team discovered that the addiction is tied to a brain network responsible for how we respond to danger. This research, published in Science Advances ...

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The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers’ understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly’s Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent ...

An international collaboration of scientists has mapped the brain of a fruit fly in a milestone research project announced on Thursday. The research sought to decipher how brains are wired and the ...

At last, a massive international team of researchers has mapped in exquisite detail every neuron in the brain of an adult animal with eyes and legs. The nifty noggin, which anyone can now freely ...

Scientists have recently completed the most ambitious effort yet to construct such a map: a complete document of every neuron and every connection in the brain of an adult fruit fly. The research ...