New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis adds to growing evidence that helping brain cells ...

Cortical Labs says the stunt points toward a new kind of low-power computing—and perhaps a new way to study neurological ...

Over the past decades, computer scientists have introduced numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems designed to emulate the organization and functioning of networks of neurons in the brain.

Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly large reserve of “silent synapses” in the adult brain—unused neural connections that can be rapidly activated to store new memories.

The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much ...

Metformin has been used for years to help people with Type 2 Diabetes control their blood sugar. Now, scientists have discovered that the drug also has a significant impact on the brain."It's been ...

Stressful situations experienced during adolescence tend to cause deeper and more lasting changes to the brain than those ...

Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom ...

Scientists have found that your brain separates memories into “what” and “where/when” using two different groups of neurons.

A new paper published in Cell Reports, in which researchers work with primates, sheds some light on the question. Researchers ...

Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful.

A recent study has found that a specific single-celled organism has the capacity for Pavlovian associative learning without a brain or even a neuron.