Unlike previous systems that convert brain signals into text, this BCI synthesizes actual speech almost instantaneously. The ...

Thanks to a team at the University of California, Davis, there's a new brain-computer interface (BCI) system that's opening ...

More information: Marco Bocchio et al, Functional networks of inhibitory neurons orchestrate synchrony in the hippocampus, ...

The brain is constantly mapping the external world like a GPS, even when we don't know about it. This activity comes in the form of tiny electrical signals sent between neurons—specialized cells that ...

A key feature that appears to facilitate neuroplasticity is the distinct nature of neurons compared to other cells.

How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal ...

Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the ...

At the same time, in your brain, the neurons needed to execute that swing start firing in a new way. Maybe it’s a handful of neurons that have always been there, but they’ve never before ...

A new study reveals that when we experience short-term (acute) pain, the brain has a built-in way to dial down pain signals - ...

A flair of energy in the brain in a dying patient who had “no blood pressure” or “heart rate” could be evidence of the “soul leaving the body” after death, according to an expert.

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.