“We can’t actually build brains,” University of Sussex mathematical physics professor Thomas Nowotny told New Scientist.

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Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered that neurons located in the wrong place can still carry out their normal function — challenging long-held assumptions about how the ...

The team identified different brain networks involved in processing scenes with people, inanimate objects, action, and dialogue. They also revealed how different executive networks are prioritized ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

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Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, ...

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The scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively builds dense new clusters of synapses in specific parts of neurons.