The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

The world is ageing quickly. People older than 64 years already outnumber children younger than five, and this asymmetry will continue to widen. As life expectancy increases and fertility rates ...

A team of researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the French National Center for Scientific ...

The question of the differences between so-called male and female brains has always sparked curiosity and fueled debate. Are ...

Human neuroscience has always been pushing the boundary of what ... Functional MRI (fMRI) is an indirect measure of brain activity, which captures the change in flow of oxygenated blood. Structural ...

An Australian startup has unveiled the world’s first commercial biological computer that runs on living human brain cells. Melbourne-based Cortical Labs launched the CL1 at Mobile World Congress ...

Neurons are cells found in your brain and central nervous system that tell your body how to behave. There are approximately 86 billion neurons in the human brain. Interestingly, your gut contains ...

After centuries of archaeological research, this is still the only known example of human brain matter preserved by vitrification. Louise Zarmati is employed at the University of Tasmania in the ...

Developed by Australian company Cortical Labs, the CL1 fuses human brain cells with silicon hardware to create a dynamic, learning neural network. This innovative system, known as Synthetic ...

And even more concerning, experts say, is how these levels have increased over time: Between 2016 and 2024, the concentration of microplastics in human brains ... up in the brain, says Nicholas ...

Every story has a beginning and end. Exactly how the human brain segments time is murky, and different people do it differently. Some segmentation cues are concrete; walking through a doorway ...