How the "virtual neuroanatomist" traces axonal connections. Though the human eye is good at filling in small gaps in lines to trace axons, computers have trouble with the task. Topological methods ...

In the early 1980s, Marian Diamond, a neuroanatomist at the University of California–Berkeley learned the location of Albert Einstein's preserved brain and hoped to examine the glia of a genius.

Golgi formulated hypotheses about the action of nerve cells 26, although these were soon challenged by the Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal 27 (1852–1934), who used and developed ...

Social psychologist Amy Cuddy explores how body language affects how others see us and how we see ourselves, emphasizing the ...

As neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor puts it, "Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think”. To gain a clearer understanding of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Death is an uncomfortable topic for most of us but it is also one of the few universal experiences everyone will have. Scientists and ...