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6 days ago · Neuroscience To decode future anxiety and depression, begin with a child’s brain A child-friendly brain imaging technique is just one way neuroscientist Cat Camacho investigates …
Neuroscience's roots make exciting and terrifying futures possible ...
Three visions of the future of neuroscience reveal the ways we might one day expand, link and heal our brains.
More brainlike computers could change AI for the better
Feb 26, 2025 · New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more efficient, more capable forms of AI.
Neuroscientists decoded people’s thoughts using brain scans
May 1, 2023 · Neuroscientists decoded people’s thoughts using brain scans The method captured the gist of what three people thought, but only if they wanted it to
A cell biologist is investigating the balance of brain flexibility ...
Sep 23, 2024 · Andrea Gomez, a Berkeley molecular and cell biologist, applies her wide-ranging curiosity to brains’ mysteries ranging from synapses to psychedelics.
Hear how people re-learn to live with emotions during brain …
Mar 3, 2025 · Laura Sanders is the neuroscience writer. She holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Southern California. supporting climate journalism is more important …
‘Silent’ cells play a surprising role in how brains work
May 28, 2025 · New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.
Pregnancy overhauls the brain. Here’s what that looks like
Sep 16, 2024 · Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil’s brain scans before, during and after pregnancy are providing the first view of a mom-to-be’s structural brain changes.
The unique neural wiring of the human hippocampus may …
Jan 6, 2025 · Living tissue from the memory centers of people’s brains reveals sparse nerve cell connections that provide strong, reliable signaling between cells.
Scientists have traced all 54.5 million connections in a fruit fly’s brain
Oct 2, 2024 · By tracing every single connection between nerve cells in a single fruit fly’s brain, scientists have created the “connectome,” a tool that could help reveal how brains work.