Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system is the human brain.

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Michael C. Oldham shares his unconventional journey from advertising executive to computational neuroscientist and his ...

In modern neuroscience, few pursuits are as complex, or as consequential, as the effort to map the biological roots of mental illness. Disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have long ...

It’s the question you hope you never hear. “9-1-1, where’s your emergency?” punctuates what is likely one of the worst moments in a person’s life. And to compound the already frightening situation, ...

Below, Tom Griffiths shares five key insights from his new book, The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind. Griffiths is a professor of psychology and computer science at ...

Anthony Leonardo is a neuroscientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s research facility who has created an environment to track dragonflies’ neuron transmissions. This research will enable him to ...