The limbic system helps regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory. It consists of structures that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above ...

The brain is a complicated network of connections and functions, but its inner machinations remain an enigma. In a huge collaborative effort, researchers profiled millions of cells to chart a cellular ...

Robots that can sense and respond to the world like humans may soon be a reality as scientists have created an artificial ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a new algorithm, the Krakencoder, that merges multiple types of brain imaging data to better understand how the brain s wiring underpins behavior, ...

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

Generating a complete multimodal cell census and atlas of the mouse brain through collaborative data collection, tool development and analysis. This atlas combines single-cell transcriptomic, ...

Imagine that you have been hired by a car company and given the task of creating a new revolutionary electric car. The task comes with a peculiar twist: you must start with a T-Ford from 1908.

It used to be thought that without the cerebral cortex, consciousness could not exist. New research, however, has found that humans and animals missing part or all of their cortices are still capable ...

You may have heard the myth that humans use only 10% of their brains. That statement is patently untrue — most people use all of their brains, all of the time. But for people who have survived a ...

As people drift into sleep, their brains do not shut down all at once. Instead, different brain regions change their activity and energy use at different times and in distinct ways. A new study ...

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