Deep within the brain, the ventral tegmental area does more than signal when we re rewarded it forecasts exactly when we ll be rewarded. This discovery came from an elegant collaboration between ...

A new study making use of AI algorithms has shown that the brain's "reward center" operates in a much more sophisticated way ...

A small region of the brain, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), plays a key role in how we process rewards. It ...

Human-animal embryo research in Japan began in 2019 with the world’s first government-approved study to grow human organs in ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified which brain circuits are vital for visual acuity and ...

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro is a massive fan of this forgotten horror comedy that’s now streaming on Tubi.

Ashish Vaswani led the team behind the transformer model that lies at the heart of GenAI. The former Google Brain researcher ...

Following a sold out debut at the Hollywood Fringe in 2024, Natalie Grove brings her autobiographical show about her mother's early onset dementia to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time.

Discover the use of 3D neural organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells to evaluate neurotoxicity and neural ...

G oosebumps are one of those things, like the taste of your own spit or those weird noises your belly makes after you eat ...

University of Haifa study shows how genetic "imprinting" determines whether rare syndrome leads to autism or psychosis, offering new model for personalized psychiatry.