Medical education has always relied on physical models to teach anatomy, but traditional options, such as cadavers or ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

Findings could create new opportunities to treat and study neurodegenerative diseasesScientists discovered that sugar ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right side can, after a turn, become a headwind. To stay on course, the fly's ...

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...

AI is ultimately a story about selfhood—and the answer will not be found in the machine, but in what mindful awareness allows ...

Treating brain diseases is extraordinarily challenging, because drugs often work poorly and implants require risky surgery that can jeopardize critical brain functions. A group at MIT has sought a ...

A light-based headset may help protect football players from brain injury and traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) by reducing ...

Brain tumors have long been treated as rogue invaders: growing, spreading, and resisting treatment on their own. But new research suggests something far more unsettling: some brain tumors may actually ...