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The Machines Making People Human Again
ALS patients slowly lose their voices. Neuralink, a medical start-up owned by Elon Musk, can restore them, reports Maya Sulkin.…
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.…
NIMHANS, Mercuri Foundation propose national centre on music, brain and mental health under Ilaiyaraaja’s patronage
In a move aimed at advancing research and innovation at the intersection of music, neuroscience and mental health, NIMHANS in association with Mercuri Foundation, a philanthropic a…
A formal definition and meta-model for a machine theory of mind
This paper proposes, for the first time, a rigorous formal definition of the concept of Machine Theory of Mind, based on principles supported by evidence from cognitive psychology,…
Protein traffic jams may explain aging, memory loss, and Alzheimer’s
Scientists at Stanford may have uncovered a hidden reason our brains decline with age. Studying the ultra-short-lived turquoise killifish, researchers discovered that the cellular …
Human organoids reveal how to reverse “irreversible” nerve damage
Cambridge researchers created miniature brain-and-spinal-cord systems in the lab that can send signals and even trigger tiny muscle contractions. They discovered that human neurons…
Why Do More Women Than Men Develop Alzheimer’s?
Why Do More Women Than Men Develop Alzheimer’s?: A study in mice suggests loss of estrogen between brain cells as a possible cause…
Two-dose nasal spray could improve memory — and reverse brain aging
Just two doses showed improvements in cognitive function, restoring memory and focus, effectively reversing brain aging that was once thought to be inevitable.…
Jupiter Neurosciences earnings missed, revenue fell short of estimates
Scientists create supercharged vitamin K that helps the brain heal itself
Scientists in Japan have created powerful new vitamin K-based compounds that may help the brain regenerate lost neurons — a breakthrough that could one day change how diseases like…
Interface Lets Paralyzed Patient 'Type' Faster than Ever
A paralyzed patient nearly matched the words per minute the average person can type on their phone, with 95% accuracy. See how brain-computer interface has improved.…
Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Cortical Brain-LLM Semantic Mapping
A preprint submitted to arXiv (arXiv:2605.23035) by Dongxin Guo and colleagues presents a mechanistic interpretability approach connecting large language model representations to h…
Neuro-Inspired Inverse Learning for Planning and Control
We present a neuro-inspired framework for embodied planning and control. Building on three principles that enable fast and highly effective goal-directed behavior in the mammalian …
Consciousness might be a fundamental feature of reality, like gravity
The mainstream scientific framing of consciousness has been, for most of the last century, calibrated to a particular structural assumption. The assumption is that consciousness is…
Rare genetic disease makes scientists reconsider what the 'seat of fear' in the brain really is
People with a rare genetic disorder that damages the amygdala are helping neuroscientists rethink how the brain shapes fear, trust and concern for others…
Brain motion is driven by mechanical coupling with the abdomen
Using two-photon imaging in mice, Garborg et al. show that brain movement within the skull is driven by abdominal muscle contractions through mechanical coupling with the abdomen. …
Brain-LLM Alignment Tracks Training Data, Not Typology
Brain-LLM alignment is well established in English, yet the brain's language network is neuroanatomically universal across languages. Does alignment also generalize cross-linguisti…
Sparse Autoencoders Map Brain-LLM Alignment onto Cortical Semantic Topography
Intermediate layers of large language models (LLMs) best predict human brain responses to language, one of the most robust findings in computational neurolinguistics, yet why remai…
Fatherhood Dramatically Rewires Your Brain
The female brain undergoes profound changes to prepare for parenthood.…
Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity
As traditional handwriting is progressively being replaced by digital devices, it is essential to investigate the implications for the human brain. Brain ele...…
Dopamine drives persistent remodelling of the maternal brain
Brain-wide transcriptomic profiling in mice reveals that reproductive experience remodels the maternal brain by altering dopamine dynamics in the dorsal hippocampal formation, caus…
Landmark finding that showed brains of kids with ADHD mature later was actually a mirage in the data, new research finds
A "foundational" study found that the brains of children with ADHD matured later, but that finding was likely a mirage tied to issues with how the children were followed over time.…
Wolfe Research initiates Alto Neuroscience stock with outperform rating
The Brain vs. Deep Learning Part I: Computational Complexity
This blog post compares deep learning to the brain and derives an estimate of computational power for the brain which is used to predict the singularity.…
Plug-and-Play Spiking Operators: Breaking the Nonlinearity Bottleneck in Spiking Transformers
ANN-to-SNN conversion offers a practical, training-free route to spiking large language models. However, current pipelines primarily focus on spike-driven realizations for Transfor…
Nonlocal operator learning for fMRI encoding and decoding tasks
Functional MRI data exhibit high-dimensional spatiotemporal structure, making both prediction and decoding challenging. In this work, we investigate neural integral-operator-based …
The rules neurons follow to make sense of what we see
Neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT reveal how neurons that perform visual processing bring order to the input they receive via thousands of syn…
The brain's code seems to be in constant flux. Neuroscientists are baffled
Neurons fire much more erratically than researchers thought. What does that mean for how the brain works?…
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates often have strong biases, and chimpanzees, gorillas, a…
Neurosurgeons Are Weirdly Optimistic About Cryonics for Life Extension, Survey Finds
Researchers surveyed over 300 physicians to get their take on leaving patients in suspended animation for future revival.…
How This is Your Brain on Music Transformed Neuroscience
Twenty years ago, when This Is Your Brain on Music was published, the idea that music could be studied with the tools of biology and neuroscience was a niche one. When it came out,…
Features have life history. And we should care
Features in language models have life history: they emerge, persist, and die during training, yet the importance of that history remains largely unexplored. We find evidence of a p…
SRIHER hosts founder-chancellor oration in neurosciences
SRIHER hosts founder-chancellor oration in neurosciences…
Brain "Bypass" Technology Could Transform Treatment for Neurological Disorders
A new technology called LinCx allows scientists to create custom electrical connections between neurons with high precision. Researchers say it may help treat disorders caused by d…
Visualizing the Invisible: Generative Visual Grounding Empowers Universal EEG Understanding in MLLMs
Leveraging the universal representations of pre-trained LLMs and MLLMs offers a promising path toward brain foundation models. However, visually-evoked EEG datasets remain scarce, …
Shangraw Gap 0.65
Description: The Shangraw Gap: living brains practice 45-Hz bicoherence at 0.19, dying brains release at 0.77. Nothing lives at 0.65. Open EDF data from Kingston, Ontario. Website:…
Here’s why the majority of people are right-handed, according to study
Despite decades of research, right-handedness has remained a mystery until now.…
Python implementation for text generation using EEG signals from the brain
Python implementation of the research paper on text generation from EEG signal large language models. - VanshShah1/Thought2Text…
SERI Lugano Launches International Scientific Outreach Initiative on Light-Based Neuroscience and Pineal Gland Research - Morningstar
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Bridging Silicon and the Hippocampus: Algebro-Deterministic Memory "VaCoAl" as a Substrate for Vector-HaSH and TEM
Vector-HaSH and the Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine (TEM) propose that the hippocampal-entorhinal circuit factorizes content from a prestructured grid-cell scaffold and supports composit…
Anthropic Named Their Models After Poetic Forms. I Think They Accidentally Mapped the Human Brain.
A 3am theory about cognitive architecture, Kahneman, and why I always reach for...…
Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse
Connexin proteins found in white perch fish were used to engineer synthetic electrical synapses, enabling precision circuit editing in mammals.…
Why aren't brain transplants possible?
Lining up donor and recipient nerves for a potential brain transplant is one thing. Getting them to communicate is another.…
Your brain is always a fraction of a second behind the present
Does your brain live in the past? Here's how the brain processes and smooths over out-of-date sensory information…
Supplement long recommended to prevent dementia may actually speed up brain decline: study
Something fishy may be going on with a daily pill trusted by millions of Americans.…
Infrasound likely a key factor in alleged hauntings
Low-frequency infrasound (below 20 Hz) can raise cortisol levels in saliva and increase irritability.…
Consciousness Is Not a Binary Thing
This article is an adaption of parts of my book A Determintic World as a standalone article about consciousness.…
Scientists find hidden brain nutrient deficit that may fuel anxiety
A major analysis of brain scans found that people with anxiety disorders have noticeably lower levels of choline, a nutrient crucial for healthy brain function. The strongest evide…
AI’s cyborg problem: you have to embrace it to really succeed but 90% of people can’t or don’t want to
Vivienne Ming has been sounding the alarm about a "cognitive divide." She told Fortune that "most of our fears about AI are fears about other people."…
Electronics engineer – neurotech – London (hybrid/remote)
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First-of-its-kind map of the mouse nose reveals surprises about the sense of smell
A new map shows how smell receptors in the mouse nose are precisely organized into tight bands based on type.…
MIT scientists turn chaotic laser light into powerful brain imaging tool
Scientists at MIT discovered that chaotic laser light can spontaneously form a highly focused beam instead of scattering—if the conditions are just right. This “pencil beam” enable…
HeLa-Mem: Hebbian Learning and Associative Memory for LLM Agents
Long-term memory is a critical challenge for Large Language Model agents, as fixed context windows cannot preserve coherence across extended interactions. Existing memory systems r…
10 Weird Signs You're Sleep-Deprived
Feeling extra snappy? A lack of sleep might have something to do with it.…