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

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

Let us start with the brain. The brain is a physical organ, (like heart and liver), and is situated within the skull, that ...

Two specific genes that evolve exclusively in humans jointly influence the development of the cerebrum. Researchers have provided evidence that these genes contribute together to the evolutionary ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Silvia Velasco, a stem cell researcher at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute has used brain organoids to understand how the human cerebral cortex forms in humans. "[The cerebral cortex ...