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Brainwaves Suppress Obvious Ideas to Help Us Think More Creatively

December 25, 2018

The human brain needs to suppress obvious ideas in order to reach the most creative ones

Largest Brain Study of 62,454 Scans Identifies Drivers of Brain Aging

August 23, 2018

Schizophrenia, cannabis use, and alcohol abuse are just several disorders that are related to accelerated brain aging

Magnetic Gene in Fish May Someday Help Those with Epilepsy, Parkinson's

August 15, 2018

An aquarium fish that senses the Earth's magnetic field as it swims could help unlock how the human brain works

A Targeted Approach to Treating Glioma

August 10, 2018

With a new method, surgeons would remove a tumor, then implant microparticles that attack the remaining cancer cells

A New Milestone in Laboratory Grown Human Brain Tissue

July 26, 2018

Researchers generate missing cell type in brain "organoids"

Meet NOTCH2NL, the Human-Specific Genes That May Have Given Us Our Big Brains

June 1, 2018

The genetic changes behind the expansion that made us human have been elusive, until now

Human-Like Walking Mechanics Evolved before the Genus Homo

April 23, 2018

Ancient footprints help researchers date the switch from a crouched to more straight-legged gait

New Insight into How Brain Makes Memories

April 26, 2015

A key protein associated with autism, addiction and depression influences brain connections.

Researchers Win $3.9 Million in Grants to Study Brain Regions that Suppress Cocaine and Alcohol Cravings

April 23, 2015

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have been awarded two grants to study brain mechanisms that actively supp...

UT Southwestern Acquires Next-Gen Microscopes to Create Whole Brain Imaging Facility

April 21, 2015

UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Texas Institute for Brain Injury and Repair (TIBIR) has acquired a pair of TissueCyte ...

The Frontiers of Cyborg Science

August 11, 2014

Seamlessly marrying electronics and brain signaling could transform how we treat some of the most puzzling and devastating di...

Strongly Interacting Electrons in Wacky Oxide Synchronize to Compute Like the Brain

May 15, 2014

Current computing is based on binary logic – zeroes and ones – also called Boolean computing. A new type of compu...

Researchers Building a Computer Chip Based on the Human Brain

August 15, 2013

Today’s computing chips are incredibly complex and contain billions of nano-scale transistors, allowing for fast, high-...

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