In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

Note: The project page for this work includes 33 autoplaying high-res videos totaling half a gigabyte, which destabilized my ...

According to study co-lead author Cheol Jun Cho, who is also a UC Berkeley Ph.D. student in electrical engineering and ...

Researchers have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have been able to follow the ...

Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time. Although it’s ...

To build the map, researchers at Columbia University and the University of Bordeaux took a slice of a frozen human brain and, ...

Having dedicated his career to understanding human brains, Eagleman shared his perspective in Newsweek's AI Impact interview series with Marcus Weldon.

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical ...

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

Two specific genes that evolve exclusively in humans jointly influence the development of the cerebrum. Researchers have provided evidence that these genes contribute together to the evolutionary ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...