100: Number, in billions, of neurons in a human brain 100: Estimated number, in terabytes, of information it can store 1: Number, in terabytes, of information a typical desktop computer can store ...

Comparing the human brain to both species meant we could not only assess which parts of our brain are unique to us, but also which parts are likely to be shared heritage with our non-human relatives.

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

an achievement that could offer insight into how the human brain works. They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample the size of a grain of sand bearing more than 200,000 cells ...

In a paper published in Science, Curtis et al. describe evidence of a well-defined RMS in the human brain. The authors stained sections of adult human brains with an antibody for proliferating ...

Most studies comparing the human brain to that of other species focus on size. This can be the size of the brain, size of the brain relative to the body, or the size of parts of the brain to the rest ...