The human brain is the most energy-intensive organ in the body, consuming about 20% of our total energy while representing a larger proportion of body mass than in most other animals. One leading ...

The next surprise was that human organoids just kept growing. Mouse organoids were done with making neurons within nine days.

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 ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

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 ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

The brain knows exactly when a person might be craving a connection of any kind, and there are certain things it only does ...

Recent preclinical advances expose how the gut microbiome impacts the maintenance of brain health through the ...

The screen worked, flagging expected cancer genes. But it also kept returning something that seemed impossible: genes for synapses, glutamate receptors, and neural signaling pathways. “We absolutely ...