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Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how the brain predicts missing visual information

Researchers discovered that our brains "sketch out" portions of scenes that are not visible — much like how an artist sketches out a scene before filling the remaining details.

15 Nov 2019
Medical Xpress

Math Looks The Same In The Brains Of Boys And Girls, Study Finds

There's new evidence that girls start out with the same math abilities as boys.

08 Nov 2019
NPR

What Menopause Does to Women’s Brains

Two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients are women. My foggy 53-year-old brain could help explain why.

08 Nov 2019
The Atlantic

Brain immune cells may protect against OCD, anxiety

Over the last decade, scientists have been discovering that microglia, a type of immune cell that resides in the brain, do more than respond to illness and infection.

04 Nov 2019
Medical News Today

People With Autism Have More Symmetrical Brains. Here's What That Could Mean

In spite of how they appear, the left and right hemispheres of the human brain tend to be far from perfect reflections of each other. Some neurological disorders can affect that imbalance, causing the two halves to appear strikingly alike.

04 Nov 2019
Science Alert

Scientists Demonstrate Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans

Work on an “Internet of brains” takes another step.

01 Nov 2019
Scientific American

First-Ever Observation Reveals The Structure of Alzheimer's Proteins in The Brain

We're learning more and more about Alzheimer's every day, but how it gets started and takes hold remains something of a mystery. Now, for the first time, scientists have observed the structure of the disease-associated protein clumps as they've formed in the brain, rather than in the lab.

01 Nov 2019
Science Alert

Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain

The synchronized brain waves of non-REM sleep may play a key role in preventing toxins from accumulating in a person's brain.

01 Nov 2019
WIRED

Are we modeling AI on the wrong brain?

At the Seattle aquarium in 2005, a giant Pacific octopus named Billye was given a herring-stuffed medication bottle.

19 Oct 2019
The Boston Globe

First evidence of immune response targeting brain cells in autism

Autism spectrum disorders affect one in 59 American children by age eight.

19 Oct 2019
Medical Xpress

World-First Discovery Hints Why Brain Studies in Mice Don't Always Translate to Humans

Although we constantly use our brains without having to think about it, working out how they do what they do is a much trickier matter.

19 Oct 2019
Science Alert

Excessive brain activity linked to a shorter life

One key to a longer life could be a quieter brain without too much neural activity, according to a new study that examined postmortem brain tissue from extremely long-lived people.

18 Oct 2019
The Washington Post

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