Special to IFN The North Carolina Partnership for Children (NCPC), through the Smart Start Network, has launched a statewide ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

People whose sleep brain waves register as biologically older than their actual age face a sharply elevated risk of ...

A study led by Georgia Institute of Technology's Associate Professor Costas Arvanitis takes a major step toward safer and more effective treatment and diagnosis of brain diseases. His team's research, ...

We would like to thank Martin York and Sean Hickman for technical assistance and Don O’Brien for assistance with data collection. This work was supported by operating grants from the Canadian ...

For years, managers have been encouraged to praise and constructively criticize just about everything their employees do. But there are better ways to help employees thrive and excel. by Marcus ...

How complex neural circuits are genetically designed and wired is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Scientists have shown for the first time that genes encode a "wiring map" that guides neurons ...

Thomas Reardon, who created Internet Explorer and sold neural interface startup CTRL-labs to Meta for up to $1 billion, is raising approximately $500 million for Flourish at a $2.5 billion valuation.

A PROFESSIONAL attends an artificial intelligence course on Saturday, completes the module, receives a certificate and returns to work on Monday. On paper, that looks like progress. But when he has to ...

In this theory, the brain learns by making predictions about the future, and then refining those predictions based on what has taken place (Rao and Ballard, 1999; de-Wit et al., 2010). If a prediction ...

If you have a child in school right now, you may have heard them talk about needing a “brain break” while doing homework or studying for a test. Maybe they shake their bodies out, do some deep ...

The brain helps us navigate through the world, but it also functions as a navigational system. This is the opinion of neuroscientist Prof. Christian Doeller, who has just been awarded the Leibniz ...