UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

Researchers collaborating on a BRAIN Initiative project unveiled the most comprehensive map of developing mammalian brains to ...

The human brain is constantly flooded with sights, sounds and sensations, yet only a fraction of those experiences become ...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

A flash fiction contest hosted by The Hopkins Review uses short stories to push the boundaries of psychology research ...

A new study finds that brain changes are not a steady progression; instead, distinct neural rewiring occurs around ages 9, 32 ...

In a controlled study, researchers used DMT and watched adults' brain activity change as their usual "sense of self" slipped ...