Directing neuronal traffic

How a gene controls neuronal traffic in the assembly of an electrical circuit. To form the complex circuits of the brain, neurons have to know when to grow and when to stop. The above image displays light-sensing neurons in the eye of a fruit fly (red and green)....

The Holographic Brain

Everything’s connected. Success is based on the brain’s ability to reorganise itself. Mechanical medicine is not the whole picture. In the video below, half of the little girl’s brain is removed, in a procedure called a hemispherectomy, after she had...