There’s a mysterious energy quietly influencing your brain. Could it explain where your consciousness originates?

Recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of smart prosthetics, such as artificial limbs, joints or organs that can replace injured, damaged or amputated ...

Memories are thought to be stored in sparse groups of neurons called engrams. These are the cells that switch on during learning and can later switch on again during recall. In physiological aging and ...

Scientists grew specialized motor neurons, lost in ALS and spinal cord injury. This new method uses brain progenitor cells to create corticospinal-like neurons. These lab-grown cells may aid ALS ...

Scientists have captured, for the first time, dynamic changes in a crucial neuronal ‘master switch’ inside the living brain, potentially informing new future treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

A figure from the research paper shows that both the model and experimental animals learned a task at a very similar pace. A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and ...

Our first neurons form during the earliest weeks of development in the womb. As the brain takes shape, those neurons move about and cluster with others to create brain regions. Then they begin the ...

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease that results in memory loss and cognitive decline. It's caused by brain cells dying and the brain itself shrinking from a buildup of proteins. Millions of seniors ...

Dr. Joseph Friedman develops efficient brain-inspired learning computer.The University of Texas at Dallas A team of engineers at The University of Texas at Dallas has developed a small-scale computer ...

Florida Atlantic University neuroscientists have uncovered a surprising role for a protein named "Frazzled" (known as DCC in mammals) in the nervous system of fruit flies, showing how it helps neurons ...