A remarkable pig brain preservation experiment is fueling new debates about death, memory, and whether future technology could one day recover the human mind.

When facing new situations or problems, humans typically rely on knowledge they acquired in the past. Specifically, ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

Understanding the sophisticated cognitive abilities of the human brain requires understanding its cellular and synaptic components. While rodent studies provide foundational knowledge, recent research ...

This article presents a novel perspective on the structure and function of the human cortex, grounded in the Sociobiological Informational Theory (SIT). SIT offers a conceptual framework that ...

Summary: More than 20 million U.S. adults live with chronic neocortical brain damage caused by stroke, Alzheimer’s, or traumatic injury—conditions with few effective treatments. A new research ...

The federal government is looking for researchers who can, in 5 years, develop stem cell treatments to repair brain damage caused by stroke, neurodegeneration, and trauma. The Functional Repair of ...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, on Thursday unveiled the Functional Repair of Neocortical Tissue (FRONT) ...

Perhaps our most defining characteristic as a species, the six-layered human cortex, hosts billions of neural connections that bestow Homo sapiens with higher-order thinking. But how does this ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain’s cortex control different body movements. This fundamental discovery dates to the 1930s, when neurosurgeons used ...