The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

A sweeping new analysis of more than 4,000 brain scans reveals that our brains’ neural networks don’t simply mature and then decline; they reorganize through a series of distinct life-stage “epochs,” ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...

An overwhelming amount of new research on Alzheimer’s and dementia risk reduction provides conclusive evidence that a strong connection exists between lifestyle choices, neuroplasticity, and cognitive ...

The human brain communicates within itself and with the rest of the body mainly through electrical signals; sights, sounds and sensations are all converted into electrical pulses before our brains can ...

Funding will advance commercialization of the Stentrode™ BCI platform and expand AI and engineering operations in New York and San Diego Synchron, a leader in non-surgical brain-computer interface ...

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Neurosurgeons are typically portrayed in one of two ways in popular culture. One is as a brilliant, if arrogant, boffin. These doctors are intellectuals (it is brain surgery, after all) who have very ...