Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give rise ...

A scientific team has shown that, under the right circumstances, 3D cell culture models of human brain tissue, known as ...

Stanford neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth is decoding the human brain to understand how our emotions are formed.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

A language-specific brain network can be identified even when a person is resting, listening to music, or doing a task ...

The brain has long been treated as a protected zone, walled off from the immune cells that patrol the rest of the body. A new study complicates that picture, reporting that immune cells from the blood ...

Highlighting patient stories, this book illuminates how the brain wires us to participate in culture and how, in turn, culture rewires the brain. It’s a common saying in neurology that once you’ve ...