A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region.

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered that the gut's rhythmic muscle movements could help explain how blood vessels in the brain expand and contract together.

Around 10 million new cases of dementia are diagnosed globally every year, with Alzheimer’s disease accounting for 60-70% of ...

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning.

Scientists develop artificial neurons that physically mimic brain activity, paving the way for low-power, high-efficiency AI ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

Martin Kampmann’s work, supported by the National Institutes of Science (NIH), maps cellular “decision points” that determine ...

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and School of Advanced Computing have developed artificial neurons that ...