UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give rise ...

“We’re definitely not saying that people in their late 20s are going to be acting like teenagers, or even that their brain ...

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever ...

It’s estimated it can take an AI model over 6,000 joules of energy to generate a single text response. By comparison, your brain needs just 20 joules every second to keep you alive and cognitive. That ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) races ahead, its capacities and limitations are now being computed by those at the forefront of the revolution.

Scientists have created a computer model that aims to mimic the human brain, hoping it might teach us about ourselves.

Anxiety is a mental health condition millions of people around the world experience every day but not something that can necessarily be “seen”—until now. In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists at ...

Brain health is a hot topic showing up in podcasts, headlines and social feeds, but what it means to us personally depends on where we are in life. In our 20s and 30s, it’s about staying sharp, making ...