‘We’re seeing ‘SuperAgers’ aged 80+ with memory as sharp as 40-year-olds — neurogenesis powers this’

Please describe your research?■ The SuperAgers study at Northwestern University was developed 25 years ago. Its goal is to examine individuals over th.

Bioengineered neuronal 'circuit board' mimics conditions of the human brain

A new bioengineered neuronal circuit board "BioConNet" allows scientists to artificially engineer human brain-like wiring at scale and can be used to engineer any possible circuit. The fully ...

'Sensory checkpoint' in adult brain keeps remodeling itself long after adolescence, scientists find

The dominant theory in neuroscience has been that the sensory processing circuits in our brain are finalized in early childhood and fixed afterward. A recently published study, however, overturned ...
Psychology Today

Is the Gut-Autism Link Overblown?

Despite the naysayers, research into the gut-autism axis is producing useful results and helping kids with autism feel less ...

The science behind the 'super-ager' brain

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...
New Scientist

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...
Knowridge Science Report

Tiny brain links may hold the key to autism, scientists discover

Although doctors can identify the condition, scientists are still trying to understand exactly why it happens and how the brain develops differently. The human brain is made of billions of tiny cells ...
Psychology Today

The Architecture of Identity: How the Brain Builds a Self

This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.
Frontiers

Beyond neurons: Computational models of glial–neuronal interactions in brain function

For some time, the field of neuroscience has been predominantly "neurocentric," viewing neurons as the primary agents of information processing while ...
Hub

Researchers aim to visualize brain activity at true speed

With a four-year, $2.7M NIH grant, Hopkins researchers are developing an AI-powered imaging system that can capture brain activity 20 to 50 times faster than current tools ...
DMNews

Researchers studied people over 80 whose brains still produce new neurons. The single habit they all shared had nothing to do with diet or exercise.

Researchers studying "super agers" — people over 80 whose brains still produce new neurons — found that the single habit they all shared wasn't about diet or exercise. It was something far more human, ...
The Unknown on MSN

How did we become people?

A wild clip from Joe Rogan discussing Terence McKenna's Stoned Ape Theory.The idea that psychedelic mushrooms sparked human evolution.Early primates ate psilocybin shrooms, boosting hunting skills, ...