Columbia scientists mapped brain mitochondria for the first time, revealing how energy shapes memory, mood, and mental health ...

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New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

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Although we know a lot about the brain and what it does, we still have much left to learn about the most complex organ in the ...

Most people know that blood pressure has two numbers. The top number, called systolic blood pressure, measures the force of ...

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Much about aging feels like a gradual process – you don’t go to bed fresh-faced the day before your 60th birthday and then ...

In this project, MitoBrainMap v.1.0, we partitioned a single brain section into 703 of these voxels. We constructed a spatial map (Fig. 1a) by using biochemical and molecular techniques to ...