White matter pathways allow distant parts of the brain to communicate, supporting memory, emotion, and language. One such ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine have uncovered new molecular insights into Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can have the same genetic cause, a discovery that won ...

Princeton researchers have combined brain cells and advanced electronics into a single 3D device that can be programmed to ...

This valuable study addressed a key question in epilepsy research: whether the recordings of very fast oscillations in the brain (>250Hz, fast ripples) reflect underlying pathology or might be a ...

Engineers have found a way to fine-tune tiny artificial neurons to fire like real brain cells. When you purchase through ...

Neurobots—xenobots with neurons—show self-organized nervous systems and enhanced behaviors, revealing new insights into how ...

USC's interdisciplinary Building a Brain club promotes mental health on campus, serves the community and does student-led ...

This is a potentially important study comparing infants (8 months) and adults with respect to rhythmic EEG response properties during periodic and aperiodic visual stimulation. The results provide ...

Patients with traumatic brain injury who used a pair of virtual reality programs experienced improvements in prospective memory and eye focus, according to a poster presented at the vMed26 virtual ...

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The brain does not simply deteriorate with age. Research over the past decade has shifted how scientists understand cognitive aging, and the news is considerably better than the old picture suggested.