American neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander revealed what he experienced 'in heaven' while in a medically-induced coma as he ...

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The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important ...

The 'jibberish code' was shared on TikTok and has left people scratching their heads, as they were asked to read the sentence ...

New research is opening a window into the brain’s prediction machinery, showing how two brain regions work together when ...

A biologist with the US government's research and development arm is working on a radical new approach to aging — replacing ...

Nothing gives you a boost of energy quite like a good night’s rest. But did you know that sleep and memory are also connected ...

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For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.

Inhibitory circuits in the neocortex used to be so simple. Although it's true that the neocortex has a mystifying assortment of inhibitory interneurons 1, most of the fast synaptic connections ...

Astrocytes in the brain exhibit significant regional diversity, but the mechanisms controlling their heterogeneity remain ...