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Artificial intelligence and neuroscience experts have taken inspiration from the human brain in creating a new ‘deep learning’ method that enables computers to learn about the visual world largely on their own, much as human babies do.

Researchers used a rodent model to discover that shifting the firing pattern of a particular set of brain cells is all it takes to initiate, or to terminate, an absence seizure.

People with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and mice that lack dopamine both are missing a critical brain wave needed for timing actions — a cognitive process that’s consistently impaired in patients with PD, new research shows. Brain stimulation at the same…

In Alzheimer’s research, one particular protein looms large: plaque-forming amyloid-beta. Yet plaques can accumulate decades before symptoms appear, and clinical trials aimed at controlling amyloid-beta have mostly flopped so far. Scientists are using …

Adults and teenagers with depression don’t respond to rewards in a normal manner. Although depression has been diagnosed in children as young as 3, it hasn’t been clear whether their responses to rewards also may be blunted. So researchers studied kids…

A research group has succeeded in correcting the motor symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease in mice. These results are promising in terms of treatment, since Parkinson’s disease is practically always diagnosed only after motor symptoms appear.

Brain connections that play a key role in complex thinking skills show the poorest health with advancing age, new research suggests.

The next generation of toys could be controlled by the power of the mind, thanks to new research.

Is it possible to directly boost one’s own confidence by directly training the brain? Researchers have discovered a way to implicitly amplify confidence in the brain by combining the use of artificial intelligence and brain imaging technology. The stud…

The saying goes that ”your left hand doesn’t know what your right hand is doing,’ but actually, your left hand is paying more attention than you’d think. Researchers found that when people practiced finger movements with their right hand while watchin…