Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Brain microphysiological systems are reshaping in vitro neurotoxicity testing through functional validation and advanced ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

New research published in Scientific Reports provides evidence that the path from genetic predisposition to general ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

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,” ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept in medicine. It reads scans, predicts risk, flags patterns, and ...

In 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework ...

That sharp flinch during a violent movie scene is familiar to many people. A hand slams, a body falls, and your own muscles tighten in response. The reaction feels instant and personal, even though ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...