Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

As the biosphere contains, at last count, more than 7.9 billion human brains, we can confidently state that the biosphere as an object is at least 7.9 billion times more complex than a brain. Garry ...

The brain is an enormously complex organ. Understanding how billions of brain cells succeed in making precise connections is a major challenge for neuroscientists. Professor Joris de Wit and his team ...

The Brain Resilience Study team is pushing the boundaries of what at-home brain health monitoring could look like. In this installment of our researcher spotlight series, we meet one researcher whose ...

A study led by Professor Ginestra Bianconi from Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with international researchers, has unveiled a transformative framework for understanding complex ...

What makes humans so smart? For a long time the answer was simple: our big brains. But new research into the tiny noggins of a recently discovered human relative called Homo naledi may challenge that ...

Study reveals that genetic changes linked to autism and schizophrenia may have been favored by natural selection. The same factors driving these changes may have contributed to the complexity of the ...

Two studies published in the latest issue of Science have revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These ...