The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

Plastic and thus modifiable neurons lose their function at old age, new research in fruit flies reveals.

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Information technology security software company Ivanti Inc. today unviled new artificial intelligence advances to its ...

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that ...

Stressed brain cells can survive longer by slowing sugar use, revealing a short-term protective response that later turns ...

Heart attacks are often thought of as a plumbing issue, the result of a blockage preventing blood from flowing through one of ...

Why do we sometimes keep eating even when we're full and other times turn down food completely? Why do we crave salty things ...

A research team has developed a way to produce a subset of highly specialised brain neurons that centrally degenerate in motor neuron disease and are damaged in spinal cord injury, laying foundations ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

New research by UCLA Health and UC San Francisco has uncovered why certain brain cells are more resilient than others to the ...

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 ...