Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology, which recognizes novel technologies that have improved human health. The prize was ...
A new study isolates the MCA brain nucleus as the central timing hub that calibrates sensory predictions across changing bodies.
Recently, it was announced that Dr. Michael Merzenich is a recipient of the Merkin Prize, awarded to innovators of breakthroughs that have demonstrably improved human health.
Researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have created one of the largest reference models ever developed ...
Researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of ...
In recent years scientists have identified hundreds of different genes associated with autism, a burst of discovery that has prompted a new and perplexing question: how can so many different genes ...
Researchers constructed a brain growth charts from 54,000+ diffusion MRI scans to map individual white matter health.
(Olga Pankova/Moment/Getty Images) The female brain undergoes profound changes to prepare for parenthood. Yet even though the male brain never has to restructure itself for pregnancy, new evidence ...
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The plastic brain

Complaining is something all of us do from time to time. We complain about traffic, politics, work, weather, long lines, ...
We used to think that the brain, once damaged, could not repair itself. Breakthroughs in neuroscience have shown that this is not true. Though individual neurons might be damaged beyond repair, the ...