Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

For decades, scientists believed the human brain stopped producing new neurons after childhood. This long-held view painted the adult brain as a fixed organ, incapable of generating fresh cells in the ...

Gliomas are cancers that originate directly in the brain, instead of spreading to the brain from other parts of the body.

MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...

Your brain can still make new neurons when you’re an adult. But how does the rare birth of these new neurons contribute to cognitive function? Researchers know that new neurons contribute to memory ...

To stay in balance, the brain depends on two types of neurons: Excitatory neurons (in white), which increase activity, and inhibitory neurons (in black), which damp down signals. Scientists have now ...

TL;DR: Scientists at the National University of Singapore have developed a silicon transistor that mimics biological neurons and synapses, offering a scalable and energy-efficient solution for ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

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Recent technological and scientific advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, which is in turn leading to interesting new discoveries. Over the past few years, many groups of ...