The brain’s white matter connections are thought to provide the structural basis for its functional connections between distant brain regions but how our brain selects the best structural routes for ...

Elon Musk's company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in people's brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone by thought alone. This is ...

TO FOOD SAFETY. HEART DISEASE AND OTHER HEALTH CONDITIONS CAN REALLY TAKE A TOLL ON YOUR BRAIN HEALTH. OUR KOAT U-N-M MEDICAL EXPERT DOCTOR SPOKE WITH DARLENE MELENDEZ ABOUT THE CONNECTION BETWEEN OUR ...

The human brain contains more connections between neurons than there are stars in the Milky Way. Decoding the electrical activity behind all those cells is the massive task that excites neural ...

In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published ...

COVID-19 is associated with increased risk for cognitive decline but very little is known regarding the neural mechanisms of this risk. We enrolled 49 adults (55% female, mean age = 30.7 ± 8.7), 25 ...

Alzheimer's disease not only robs people of their memory but also affects mood, often causing anxiety and depression. Until now, scientists haven't fully understood how these symptoms are connected in ...

A BRAIN implant has shown it can turn a person’s inner thoughts into words — but only if the user first thinks of a secret “password” to switch it on. Known as a brain-computer interface (BCI), the ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

While age-old challenges regarding the mind, self, and consciousness persist within the labyrinths of philosophy, scientists may be on the verge of solving them through empirical means, even in the ...