New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life ... encompassing nerves that branch out from the spinal cord and the brain. The cerebrum is physically divided into two halves—the left hemisphere ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

The human brain is actually two brains each capable of advanced mental functions. When the cerebrum is divided surgically, it is as if the cranium contained two separate spheres of consciousness ...

A recent study reveals that the human brain, when lacking energy, might draw from its own fatty tissues. This discovery ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity ...

Researchers have developed a new kind of artificial neuron—called infomorphic neurons—that can independently learn and self-organize with nearby neurons, mimicking the decentralized learning of ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki, Ph.D.) has revealed, ...