A human biologist told Newsweek that Alzheimer's research should stop focusing on one molecule and study the wider system.

A research team has developed the world's first chip that can match the speed at which the human brain functions. The study, ...

Alzheimer's disease is not only about the accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain. A growing number of studies indicate ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world and learn new things. At York University and MIT's McGovern Institute, ...

Researchers have developed a powerful new software toolbox that allows realistic brain models to be trained directly on data. This open-source framework, called JAXLEY, combines the precision of ...

We've known for decades that we don't have lizard brains or mammalian brains, so why do people still think we do?

The most comprehensive model of the brain’s metabolism, incorporating more than 16,800 biochemical interactions, has identified key targets to reverse the age-related decline in brain function. The ...