Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

The race to understand the brain has just crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction. Using one of the world’s ...

UCR scientists create a fully synthetic model for growing brain cells that could allow for animal-free drug testing.

A computer model developed by researchers from Japan and Seattle's Allen Institute could lead to new methods for studying ...

Harnessing the muscle of one of the world's fastest supercomputers, researchers have built one of the largest and most detailed biophysically realistic brain simulations of an animal ever.

Two years ago, a pair of 22-year-old friends who met in high school in Michigan found themselves sitting inside Tsinghua ...

BigBrain, a 3D digital reconstruction of a human brain, provides a first-ever high resolution view of the inner workings of the human brain that could lead to better understanding of how we think, ...

Long-term memory emerges from a sequence of molecular programs that sort, stabilize, and reinforce important experiences.

Two new studies published in the journals Neuron00792-5) and Naturereveal how the human brain transforms a continuous stream ...

Ground-breaking research analyzed over 4,000 brain scans to identify five different neuroscience-based life stages.

Every day, our brains transform quick impressions, flashes of inspiration, and painful moments into enduring memories that ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the ...