Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

New research published in Scientific Reports provides evidence that the path from genetic predisposition to general ...

In 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework ...

The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I analyze the recently announced ...

A representative MRI tractography image of the first era of the human brain. This image is representative of the general pattern seen across the brains in the study during the first era of neural ...

As our behavior is determined by our brains, understanding which neurological circuits are involved at the beginning of the ...

While such advances bring with them a breadth of knowledge, the immense complexity of the datasets makes it challenging for scientists to analyze them using current computational methods. Now, ...

Why do we sometimes keep eating even when we're full and other times turn down food completely? Why do we crave salty things ...