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Researchers from Cambridge Grow a ‘Mini-Brain’ Capable of Contracting Muscle
March 19, 2019 
A group of researchers from the University of Cambridge have grown a miniature (roughly pea-sized) brain in a…
Evidence for a Human Geomagnetic Sense
March 19, 2019
Many humans are able to unconsciously detect changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields, according to scientists at Caltech and…
A human brain model in a petri dish?
January 18, 2019
Research scientists around the world are now able to investigate the structural, cellular and developmental intricacies of the…
Study identifies a new way by which the human brain marks time
January 18, 2019
With a little help from HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” University of California, Irvine neurobiologists have uncovered a key…
We recall memories in a backwards process
January 15, 2019
Human memory is a complex system that scientists are still trying to figure out. How we memorize things?…
After 30 years of hide-an-seek battle scientists discovered a new brain region
December 4, 2018
Despite on-going scientific effort, we still don’t know our brain very well. Sure you’ve heard about all those…
To see what’s right in front of you, your brain may need some rewiring
October 24, 2018
Life-changing moments are also brain-changing moments: everything from a first kiss to a last goodbye modifies cells within…
New TRIPODS+X awards target Big Data solutions for broad range of research challenges
September 20, 2018
Building on the success of its 2017 Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) awards, the National…
Musical Improvisation in the Brain
August 9, 2018
Imagine you’re at a concert, and in the middle of a song, the band slowly gets quiet. Instruments…
Bigger human brain prioritizes thinking hub – at a cost
June 6, 2018 
Some human brains are nearly twice the size of others – but how might that matter? Researchers at…
Humans Evolved Large Brains due to Ecological, Rather than Social Factors, New Research Finds
May 27, 2018
Similar to our primate cousins, we humans have unusually large and evolutionarily costly brains which consume as much…
NIH scientists watch the brain’s lining heal after a head injury
April 19, 2018
Following head injury, the protective lining that surrounds the brain may get a little help from its friends:…
Dogged researchers find new clues to the human brain
April 4, 2018
If the ideal dog in your brain is an abstract rendering of qualities drawn across many dog encounters,…
Molecular secrets revealed: antipsychotic docked in its receptor
February 5, 2018
Antipsychotic drugs – which transformed mental health care following their chance discovery in the mid-20th Century – may finally be…
Neurons Encoding Familiarity and Novelty
December 20, 2017
It’s a bit frustrating and a bit embarrassing: when a person looks so familiar, but their name hovers…
LLNL-developed microelectrodes enable automated sorting of neural signals
December 13, 2017
Thin-film microelectrode arrays produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have enabled development of an automated system to…
Small but distinct differences among species mark evolution of human brain
November 24, 2017
The most dramatic divergence between humans and other primates can be found in the brain, the primary organ…
Penn’s Restoring Active Memory Project Adds Task and Patient Data to Publicly Available Human Brain Dataset
November 3, 2017
The Restoring Active Memory project run by the University of Pennsylvania has just released human intracranial brain recording and stimulation data for…
Mind Flex: linking sensory cues to actions and behaviors
August 21, 2017
The human brain has a region of cells responsible for linking sensory cues to actions and behaviors and…
Lab-created mini-brains reveal how growing organ maintains neuronal balance
July 31, 2017
Scientists can now explore in a laboratory dish how the human brain develops by creating organoids — distinct,…
Brain training has a greater overall effect than previously believed
September 7, 2016
Most people will have to face a cognitive decline as they age. Scientists are trying to find effective…
Humans evolved smarter as their brain became more blood-thirsty?
September 2, 2016
There is a general belief that humans evolved to be smarter and smarter because their brain got bigger…
Science meets art: installation inspired by waves of the dying brain
April 21, 2016
Science news websites rarely write something even remotely related to art. However, sometimes these two fields come together…
Brain replays memories during rest and puts them to long term storage
April 21, 2016
Despite how important and intriguing it is, and how much effort scientists put into it, we still do…
Are humans the new supercomputer?
April 18, 2016
The saying of philosopher René Descartes of what makes humans unique is beginning to sound hollow. ‘I think…
Lawrence Livermore and IBM collaborate to build new brain-inspired supercomputer
March 30, 2016
Chip-architecture breakthrough accelerates path to exascale computing; helps computers tackle complex, cognitive tasks such as pattern recognition sensory…
Discovery of the characteristics of subcortical regions in schizophrenia
March 19, 2016
The existence of an asymmetry for globus pallidus volume A research group led by Ryota Hashimoto, an associate…
Future brain therapies for Parkinson’s possible with stem cell bioengineering innovation
March 18, 2016
Rutgers and Stanford scientists develop novel way to inject healthy human nerve cells into the brain Scientists at…
3D brain-on-a-chip helps predict drug neurotoxicity
February 16, 2016
NIH-funded engineered brain tissue identifies toxins correctly 9 out of 10 times To help test the toxicity of…
Bridging the Bio-Electronic Divide
January 23, 2016
A new DARPA program aims to develop an implantable neural interface able to provide unprecedented signal resolution and…
- On the Trail of the Brain
July 24, 2018 - Why did I do that?
August 22, 2017 - History of the human brain
August 15, 2016 - Researchers create ‘mini-brains’ in lab to study neurological diseases
February 15, 2016 - Europe’s most powerful brain scanner arrives
January 19, 2016 - Scientists figure out how excitatory/inhibitory balance is maintained in our brain
December 28, 2015
- Newly discovered windows of brain plasticity may help with treatment of stress-related disorders
December 23, 2015 - Psychotic diseases: The Typing Pool
December 16, 2015
- Negative beliefs about aging predict Alzheimer’s disease in Yale-led study
December 8, 2015 - Researchers Recruit Luminescent Nanoparticles to Image Brain Function
November 18, 2015 - What does fear look like in the brain?
October 29, 2015
- Medical diagnosis: Will brain palpation soon be possible?
October 7, 2015 - How the brain recognizes objects
October 5, 2015 - Our brain’s secrets to success?
September 30, 2015 - Reaction Snapshots of a Notch-Modifying Enzyme Provide a Basis for Drug Design
September 29, 2015 - Unique support system promotes cortex growth, connectivity linked to prowess
September 29, 2015 - Team links two human brains for question-and-answer experiment
September 24, 2015 - Researchers Identify Possible Physiological Cause of Brain Deficits with Aging
September 24, 2015 - Stem cell-derived ‘organoids’ help predict neural toxicity
September 22, 2015 - Trauma heightens brain sensitivity to negative events
September 13, 2015 - New project has lofty goal: help people reach their potential
September 9, 2015 - Neuroscientists Identify the Neural Pathway that Leads to Alcoholism
September 4, 2015 - Closing the loop with optogenetics
August 28, 2015 - Age and Anesthesia
August 26, 2015 - Scientists discover brain waves behind indecisiveness
August 24, 2015 - BrainHub scientists visualize critical part of basal ganglia pathways
August 20, 2015 - Scientist: Most complete human brain model to date is a ‘brain changer’
August 20, 2015 - Hold Me, Turn Me
August 18, 2015 - Brain abnormalities are present even before onset of schizophrenia
August 13, 2015 - Brain Parasite Not Your Typical Invader
August 8, 2015 - Consolidating consciousness
August 6, 2015 - Can memories be lost and found?
August 5, 2015 - What happens when ‘Aha!’ strikes
August 4, 2015 - Brain’s ability to dispose of key Alzheimer’s protein drops dramatically with age
July 31, 2015 - Neuroscientists Identify Brain Regions that Account for Individual Talent
July 29, 2015 - Catching the Brain in a Lie: Is “Mind Reading” Deception Detection Sci-Fi—or Science?
July 29, 2015 - Delayed brain development in the poorest children linked to lower educational achievement
July 28, 2015 - Bilinguals of 2 spoken languages have more gray matter than monolinguals
July 27, 2015 - Researchers pinpoint where the brain unites our eyes’ double vision
July 24, 2015 - Update: Babies’ expectations may help brain development
July 22, 2015 - Making ‘miniature brains’ from skin cells to better understand autism
July 17, 2015 - Device delivers drugs to brain via remote control
July 17, 2015 - Neuroscientists decipher brain’s noisy code
July 16, 2015 - Virtual reality sheds new light on how we navigate in the dark
June 19, 2015 - Scientists invent a way to synthesize potential brain-protecting compound
June 18, 2015 - “Mysteries of the Brain” video series debuts
June 11, 2015 - $10 Million Grant Funds Center to Study OCD at UR School of Medicine and Dentistry
June 8, 2015 - Scientists produce strongest evidence yet of schizophrenia’s causes
June 5, 2015 - The adolescent brain develops differently in bipolar disorder
June 2, 2015 - Brain Signals Contain the Code for Your Next Move
June 1, 2015 - Relax. Your Aging Brain is Just Behaving Normally
May 15, 2015 - Researchers discover how the brain balances hearing between our ears
May 13, 2015 - Could brain scans help predict schizophrenia?
May 13, 2015 - An Important Step in Artificial Intelligence
May 12, 2015 - How the human brain separates the ability to talk and write
May 9, 2015 - U.Va. Shares $11 Million Grant to Probe Genetic Causes of Schizophrenia
May 8, 2015 - How your brain reacts to emotional information is influenced by your genes
May 8, 2015 - All sugars are not equally desirable, new study finds
May 6, 2015 - How noise changes the way the brain gets information
May 6, 2015 - Research shows brain differences in children with dyslexia and dysgraphia
April 30, 2015 - Study describes brain circuitry for selecting among sensations
April 24, 2015 - Scientists discover mechanism how vitamin E deficiency can cause brain damage
April 15, 2015 - Network “hubs” in the brain attract information, much like airport system
April 14, 2015 - The brain game
April 6, 2015 - HIV can lodge quickly in brain after infection
March 27, 2015 - Too much of a bad thing can be good in brain tumors
March 26, 2015 - Yale leads test of new device that protects the brain during heart-valve procedure
March 23, 2015 - Our Eyes Multi-Task Even When We Don’t Want Them to, Researchers Find
March 20, 2015 - Atlas of thoughts
March 19, 2015 - Study shows connection between key autism risk genes in the human brain
March 11, 2015
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