For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an enormous number of neurons. It also has an even more enormous web of connections ...
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that individual cells in the human ...
Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology, working in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, have achieved an important breakthrough in brain research. The ...
When you get better at a skill—recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game—sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...
As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...
Tires may do more than wear down on the road—a chemical they release could be quietly raising your risk of Alzheimer's.
Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...
Newly decoded brain circuits make memories more stable as part of learning, according to a new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers. Published online in Science on Oct. 30, the study shows that ...
Previous studies have linked NPAS3 to conditions involving cognitive problems, such as schizophrenia, but scientists didn’t ...
New research from University of Rochester faculty members Ralf Haefner and Adam Snyder and graduate student Shizhao Liu challenges a long-standing theory in neuroscience by showing that as learning ...