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

A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs ...

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

Researchers at the University of Geneva, together with colleagues in Switzerland, France, the United States and Israel, ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the brain, integrates memory and processing to drastically reduce power consumption compared to traditional CPUs and GPUs, making AI at the network edge more ...

Our brains have to do a lot of work when we watch a movie. There are plots to follow, dialogue to interpret, visuals to take in, and more. Now, scientists have created a detailed map of how the human ...

Anthony Leonardo is a neuroscientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s research facility who has created an environment to track dragonflies’ neuron transmissions. This research will enable him to ...

Fasting has long been sold as a shortcut to weight loss, but a growing body of research suggests the real action may be ...