The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...
The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...
Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...
It may interest you: You will already be able to understand your tenderloin! This collar translates your dog's barking using artificial intelligence Congrats to John Simeral et al. on their exciting ...
A new study has identified the brain connectivity patterns that lead to cognitive difficulties in patients with schizophrenia, suggesting potential targets for therapeutic intervention in early ...
For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...
Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...
New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, identifying two molecules that must be present before synapses, the ...
Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...
For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...
Cardiologist Bob Harrington talks to Mitch Elkind, chief science officer for Brain Health and Stroke at the AHA, about the ...