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

Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking ...

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

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

Some artificial intelligence models can already resemble the human brain even before having learned anything. This surprising ...

A transparent chip no larger than a stick of gum is helping scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, ...

Researchers at Tianjin University and the Southern University of Science and Technology in China have created a “human-on-chip” system that combines human brain matter with a neural interface chip and ...

Ultra-high-field brain scans reveal integrated maps of vision and touch, highlighting the brain's role in embodied perception ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

How does the brain take out its trash? That is the job of the brain's lymphatic drainage system, and efforts to understand how it works have pushed the boundaries of brain-imaging technologies. A new ...