The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Researchers outline a roadmap for applying transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive technique for stimulating the brain ...

Artificial intelligence was built to process data, not to think like us. Yet a growing body of research is finding that the internal workings of advanced language and speech models are starting to ...

A new study showcases how brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between ourselves and the outside world ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...

A newly identified enzyme appears to control tau production, brain inflammation, and aging. Researchers at the University of ...

Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the ...

University of Utah researchers at the Pulst-Scoles Laboratory have discovered that reducing levels of the STAUFEN-1 protein ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Earlier this year, John Hopkins University scientists revealed that they had created something astonishing: a miniature whole human brain. Specifically, it was a type of organoid, a small mass of ...