Neuroscience
Can a virtual brain replace lab rats?
Testing the effects of drugs on a simulated brain could lead to breakthrough treatments for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s,...
Scientists identify gene linking brain structure to intelligence
For the first time, scientists at King’s College London have identified a gene linking the thickness of the grey matter...
Lighting a new path to understanding the ‘language’ of the brain
When President Barack Obama announced the $100 million neuroscience initiative called Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) in April,...
Architects of Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain
Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some have imagined that...
Computing with Silicon Neurons
Scientists from Berlin and Heidelberg use artificial nerve cells to classify different types of data Thus, they may recognize handwritten...
How the Brain Links Memories of Sequential Events
MIT neuroscientists have now discovered how two neural circuits in the brain work together to control the formation of such...
Bioengineering a New Brain
BIOENGINEERS dream of growing spare parts for our worn-out or diseased bodies. They have already succeeded with some tissues, but...
Neural Prosthesis Restores Behavior After Brain Injury
Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior -- in this case, the...
Biochemical mechanisms of memory
A discovery by a research team led by Ryohei Yasuda at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience has significantly...
Estrogen: Not Just Produced by Ovaries
A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team reports today that the brain can produce and release estrogen -- a discovery that...
Male and female brains wired differently
A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found...
Bionic implant to treat mental illness
UOW researchers are in the midst of developing an innovative brain implant to help treat people with mental illnesses such...
Your Brain Sees Things You Don’t, Says Study
University of Arizona doctoral degree candidate Jay Sanguinetti has authored a new study, published online in the journal Psychological Science,...
Neuroelectronics Make Smarter Computer Chips
Kwabena Boahen got his first computer in 1982, when he was a teenager living in Accra. “It was a really...