An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain ...

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Researchers tracked brain activity across 24 hours, showing how shifting neural control centers drive fatigue and how sleep ...

Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking ...

A high-speed “zap-and-freeze” method is giving scientists their clearest view yet of how brain cells send messages. By ...

The brain is shielded from many substances by the blood-brain barrier, but this shield is not impenetrable. There are immune cells in the brain called microglia that can respond to potential invaders ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall, cadaver ...

We all like to think of ourselves as quick-witted, but a new study from Caltech calculates that our brains process information at the extremely slow speed of around 10 bits per second. This leisurely ...