To study how a key chemical neuromodulator affects signaling in the brain's cortex, Garrett Neske, PhD, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Whitehall Foundation, a nonprofit ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

Researchers Matthew Golub, Belle Liu, and Jacob Sacks at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering, have ...

A new study suggests that the brain processes information with high efficiency by synchronizing the physical wiring of neural ...

A research team from the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Lanzhou University has obtained ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...

Every year, millions of lives are suddenly, swiftly transformed by a stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel travelling ...

When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

In 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework ...