Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the models underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT, image ...

For more than a decade, neuroscientists had recordings from monkey brains learning to sort visual patterns. They had analyzed the data, published landmark papers, and moved on. Then a computer model ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is most prevalent in Northern Europe and Canada, and more common in the northernmost latitudes. In ...

Brain organoids are valuable models for studying neurological diseases. However, they mature slowly, limiting their utility for conditions that develop over decades. Until now, stimulation methods ...

A chaotic laser beam manages to organize itself, allowing for detailed observation of the brain and accelerating advances in ...

A new, more life-like physical model of microscopic nerve fibers called axons could speed up the discovery of medicines for multiple sclerosis and other degenerative brain diseases, suggests a new ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...

The technology is still in its infancy. But its trajectory suggests that ethical conversations may become pressing far sooner than expected. These “biocomputers” are still in their early days. They ...

New findings reveal that certain areas of the brain influence how neurons transmit signals and control their range.

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across longer timescales.