A new open-source model of brain metabolism—the most complex ever generated—has shown how altering key chemicals could ...

Research shows that how we process sensory information from our environment significantly impacts stress levels and overall ...

Our love for mystery stems from brain chemistry, evolution, and curiosity. Engaging with mystery enhances critical thinking ...

The computer integrates lab-grown neurons that develop on a silicon chip, enabling them to transmit and receive electrical signals.

The human brain stands as perhaps nature’s most ... their brain architecture remains very much under construction. The limbic system—responsible for emotions and reward processing—undergoes ...

Neurons are cells found in your brain and central nervous system that tell your body how to behave. There are approximately 86 billion neurons in the human brain. Interestingly, your gut contains ...

But the UCSF team discovered that as female mice reached the equivalent of about 65 human years, their ‘silent’ second X started expressing genes that bolster the brain’s connections ...

After the initial demonstration of Berger in 1934 on electrical activity recorded from the human brain, Adrian and Mathews showed ... HRV in heart acts as an extension and amplifier of the limbic ...

An Australia-first study has found fat-loving “forever chemicals” in the human brain, raising questions ... therapeutics to the central nervous system, I was somewhat surprised by the findings ...

who have developed an AI system capable of decoding fMRI scans. The machine, called MindLLM, produces a text description of a subject’s thought process while looking at an image. The work paves the ...

However, more activity may occur in a brain region called the deep limbic system, which relates to mood. This may cause symptoms similar to those of depression. As such, Dr Amen proposes that ...

But it might also put us at risk for uniquely human brain disorders ... facilitate the transmission of signals in the nervous system and support our higher cognitive functions.