By tamping down metabolism, a new experimental treatment that induces a hypothermia-like state may slow stroke-associated ...

A new study suggests that people are more likely to consciously notice neutral spoken words than negative ones when ...

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

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The ...

Casey Harrell using a brain-implant interface. (Regents of the University of California, Davis) This Week in Science: A world ...

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Human brains donated after death are being kept biologically active in a Connecticut lab, where scientists are using them to ...

The Allen Institute is launching a $400 million initiative, the Brain Health Accelerator, to develop gene therapies for neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

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