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Last year, Oxford University Press designated "brain rot" as its word of the year, defining it as the "supposed deterioration ...

Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement—they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the University of ...

Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement—they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision.

A study of long-distance runners shows the brain’s remarkable ability to adapt ... The changes were short-lived—and may even be healthy. “You exercise everything, including your myelin ...

May 14, 2025 — A research team has demonstrated how the energy levels of individual neurons in the brain change during so-called spreading depolarizations -- waves of activity that occur in ...

Brain-computer interface (BCI) specialist Synchron has previewed an artificial intelligence model that it believes will form the basis of a new generation of devices to allow individuals to ...

May 26, 2025 • In 2016, Tulika Prasad was at the grocery store checkout line with her seven-year-old son, who is non-verbal and autistic. A woman understood what was going on when Prasad's son ...

Seven years ago, two events set forth a domino effect culminating in Bayer leaders having a potential “tough decision” of whether or not the company will continue to manufacture its legacy ...

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