1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (759+ words) For decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging has offered scientists an unmatched window into the human brain, revealing whole-brain networks at work without a single incision. Yet when researchers attempt to bring that same power to bear on the smallest and…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (495+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader My youngest son, Alex, who is also a neurointensivist like me, recently lost one of the treasures of his life, his dog Milo (whose middle name was Rafa, after Rafael Nadal). As Milo’s health…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (310+ words) How Much of the Brain Do We Actually Use? The Truth Behind the 10 Percent Brain Myth Newstrack English "Humans use only 10 percent of their brain; the remaining 90 percent lies completely dormant." This claim is so widely repeated that many take…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1390+ words) One of the most popular explanations of human behavior has been that somewhere beneath our rational mind lurks an ancient “lizard brain”—a primitive evolutionary holdover responsible for instinct, emotion, fear, and aggression. There is just one problem. Neuroscientists have…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1177+ words) Google Research and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus have completed a wiring diagram of the entire central nervous system, including the brain and ventral nerve cord, of adult male Drosophila melanogaster. Just days after the research findings…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (468+ words) Reposted from U of U Health. A new study has used a type of machine learning called a neural network to reveal how different kinds of training can change how learning happens-both in machines and in living brains. "We can…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (189+ words) Any sufficiently advanced technology will immediately be forced to play Doom. Let’s look at this story in its natural chronological order. Scientists have been using fruit flies for research for over a century. The winged insects have a strong history…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (946+ words) thetransmitter.org Placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality, or treating it as an end-all quantification of some aspect of neural computation, may hinder progress in understanding the brain. The following statement should be uncontroversial for any…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (557+ words) UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, stem cells responsible for producing much of the cerebral cortex, change their behavior depending on how they process glucose and on…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (533+ words) A new study has used a type of machine learning called a neural network to reveal how different kinds of training can change how learning happens-both in machines, and in living brains. We can use these complex models to make…...