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

Modern neuroscience and the computational modeling of the activities of vast, integrated neural networks provide fruitful ...

A newly discovered collection of neurons suggests the brain and heart communicate to trigger a neuroimmune response after a heart attack, which may pave the way for new therapies ...

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

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

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

Researchers documented the activity of neurons that shape directional navigation as bats explored a remote island off the ...

Gliomas are cancers that originate directly in the brain, instead of spreading to the brain from other parts of the body. These cancers cannot be cured with conventional cancer treatments, as they ...

For decades, neuroscientists focused almost exclusively on only half of the cells in the brain. Neurons were the main players, they thought, and everything else was made up of uninteresting support ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...

It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

One of the brain’s biggest benefits from exercise – the birth of new neurons – may not even require any movement. Instead, the beneficial “packages” circulating in the blood after working out can be ...