Your brain is carrying a massive reserve of wiring it has never switched on. Researchers at MIT have found that roughly 30 ...

Social media connectivity boosts networking performance while significantly reducing content learning and recall accuracy.

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf holds up a specialized chip for recording electrical activity in brain organoids. Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven its incredible ...

MIT neuroscientists have uncovered a surprising secret hidden in the adult brain: millions of “silent synapses,” dormant ...

MIT researchers have discovered that about 30% of synapses in the adult mouse cortex are 'silent'—structurally intact but functionally inactive until triggered. The finding challenges the long-held ...

Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's ...

The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Talia Milgrom-Elcott nurtures belonging & advances STEM. When Dr. Melina Uncapher looks at the brain, she sees an organ constantly ...

Nowadays, no one seriously doubts that physical activity improves our physical health, along with our mental health and cognitive abilities. Source: Passja1000 / Pixabay Physically active children ...

A new study just brought us closer to an answer, and what they found challenges some long-held assumptions about the aging brain's capacity for renewal. Using advanced single-cell sequencing ...

There is mounting evidence that playing music, or even listening to it, can delay or reverse the onset of normal age-related ...