Houston institutions recently announced Project Metis, an ambitious effort to position the region as a leader in brain health ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

A common bacterium usually found in the respiratory system appears to be linked to cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease ...

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

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The Ban Ki-moon Foundation, Paris Brain Institute and Vascular Brain Health Institute empower the next generation of ...

We build AI systems to mimic the human brain: writing emails, answering questions and predicting what comes next. But new research aims to turn that relationship around—using large language models ...

A multidisciplinary team of University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers has received a $40,000 Ride Cincinnati grant to study a delayed release preparation, or wafer, of an immunostimulatory ...

A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, ...

A study led by researchers at the University of Camerino in Italy found that the fatty insulation protecting neurons can be harmed when we go without sleep, compromising our mental processing. Through ...