Scientists have built a working simulation of an entire adult fruit fly brain and connected it to a physics-based virtual ...

Researchers discover that a mutation in the grin2a gene impairs a thalamocortical brain circuit, preventing the brain from ...

A late-maturing brain filter in the thalamus prunes noisy sensory inputs over time, helping adults ignore distractions and ...

"The ghost is no longer in the machine. The machine is becoming the ghost." The post Researchers Upload Fly’s Brain to Matrix, Let It Control Virtual Body appeared first on Futurism.

Scientists have developed a new machine learning method that reveals surprisingly consistent intrinsic brain patterns across different subjects by disentangling these patterns from the effect of ...

One of the symptoms of schizophrenia is difficulty incorporating new information about the world. This can lead patients to struggle with making decisions and, eventually, to lose touch with reality.

Researchers discover a neural circuit that rewards gnawing behavior with dopamine, explaining repetitive oral habits in animals and humans.

A cluster of lab-grown human brain cells has apparently made the leap to successfully playing a very rudimentary video game ...

When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on neurons in different ways, they all lead to the same result: a disruption of the ...

Brain scans show that time in nature quiets stress circuits, restores attention, and reduces rumination in measurable ways.

Chronic back pain appears to amplify everyday sensory experiences, including sound. Brain scans reveal altered activity in ...

People with chronic back pain process everyday sounds differently, and more intensely, than people without pain, according to ...