A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

Two major studies have unveiled promising new tools for tackling Alzheimer’s disease: Johns Hopkins researchers used lab-grown brain organoids to test patient-specific drug responses and identify ...

The brain has its own immune system, which detects threats and mounts a defense. A growing body of evidence has shown that in ...

Seemingly unrelated diseases and conditions like Alzheimer's disease, obesity, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, and ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine report new evidence that clusters of brain tissue derived from the cells of patients ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

Brain science just pulled off its biggest flex yet. While you were debating whether AI will steal your job, neuroscientists mapped brain tissue with precision that makes your smartphone camera look ...

A human brain consumes less power than a light bulb, while artificial intelligence systems guzzle electricity to do the same tasks. Now, scientists have created a highly efficient AI model that hints ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...

Efforts to identify and evaluate next-generation therapeutics for pediatric brain tumors are easily stymied by the quality and availability of laboratory models for research. To address this issue, ...

I've always wondered what exactly happens inside my brain after a sleepless night. Why does everything feel harder—thinking ...

The brain predicts the past and learns from prediction errors—unless it's overwhelmed. A little uncertainty is good; a lot is ...