A Startup Is Keeping Human Brain Cells Active After Death. Could It Change Drug Testing?

In mice, a brain protein called Arc helps spread toxic molecules from sick brain cells to healthy ones. If therapies could be ...

The brain has emerged as a new frontier in medical technology. Bloomberg Primer explores where the next neurotechnology advances will lead.

Paradromics CEO Matt Angle said the patient will start testing the device in the coming weeks with the goal of restoring her ...

The researchers found that specific neurons increased their electrical firing rate just before certain components of speech, ...

A new study led by Monash University researchers has shed light on the factors shaping the intricate wiring of our brains.

If human sensorimotor intelligence can be recovered as a learned model, systems can be trained that map perception into ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

Neuroimaging revealed that prolonged wakefulness strengthened synaptic connections which could saturate learning capacity, ...

What previously required months or years of specialised lab work can now be done in hours or days thanks to its integrated ...

Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...