A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

Understanding how a healthy brain works can provide insight into how it fails, too. Scientists hope that studying organoids derived from humans with neurodevelopmental disorders — particularly ...

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in ...

Not only do our brains appear to generate new neurons into adulthood, but those of superagers contain far more brain cells in ...

"Super-agers" seem to produce more new nerve cells in a brain region important for memory than other people their age ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

You probably have a general understanding of the human brain: a network of nerve cells connected by synapses. Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve cells, ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.