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Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human ...

A new brain implant stands to transform human-computer interaction and expand treatment possibilities for neurological ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

A radically miniaturized brain implant called BISC is redefining what’s possible in human–computer interaction, offering a ...

A one millimeter worm is helping scientists rethink what controls the pace of aging. By tracing how its tiny brain senses the world and broadcasts hormonal commands, researchers are starting to see ...

Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, “Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human ...

The human body is packed with natural rhythms, from your sleep-wake cycle to the steady pulsing of blood through the brain to heart rate and pulse. Now, scientists say the gut may hold the key to ...

Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of OpenAI's platform ChatGPT, are now widely ...

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