Inaccurate metaphors about the mind can cause real harm, for instance leading educators to 'train' children like algorithms.

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Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far ...

A team of researchers has discovered that a protein called cypin plays a powerful role in helping brain cells connect and ...

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Brain dynamics and cognition share genetic roots. Criticality may guide future brain health research. A recent study published on June 24 in PNAS presents strong evidence that brain criticality—the de ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a program Thursday to advance brain-repair research and develop ...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, on Thursday unveiled the Functional Repair of Neocortical Tissue (FRONT) ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

The human brain actually lights up with signals known as ultra weak photon emotions (UPEs), which are a byproduct of ...