Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

The human brain is a complex, multi-regional structure, and most brain organoids do not recapitulate its complexity and connectivity across different brain areas. For example, human induced ...

Researchers Matthew Golub, Belle Liu, and Jacob Sacks at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering, have ...

The human brain and body are intricate systems that have been fine-tuned over millions of years to prioritize survival. One of the ways they achieve this is by favoring the status quo, or what is ...

Traumatic experiences during infancy and childhood can leave a lasting imprint on an individual’s health. New research ...

A project at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has developed a novel imaging protocol to observe the brain's structure and dynamics. Published in Nature Methods, the findings open ...

Babies in financially stressed households show slower brain development, highlighting the importance of income stability ...

Everywhere you look, there is a great deal of fear about the possibility of developing dementia as you get older. A new study ...

Scientists have created the first detailed wiring diagram of an insect brain. The brain, from a fruit fly larva, contained 3016 neurons connected by 548,000 synapses, the team reported Thursday in the ...