The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...

Small and dense but filled with vitally important neural fibers, the brainstem has been hard for brain imaging technologies to dissect. New software reliably and finely resolves eight distinct nerve ...

Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.

In 2021, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson announced “a leap forward”: It had added artificial intelligence to a ...

When it’s time to have a difficult conversation with a dying patient about whether to insert a feeding tube, Dr. Jonathan ...

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will ...

Contrary to popular belief, meditation isn't "thinking about nothing." In fact, a new international study on Buddhist monks shows that meditation is a state of heightened cerebral activity in which ...

Across neuroscience, biomedical engineering and artificial intelligence, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are exploring how pain is measured, understood and treated to support safer, more ...

Meta and Google-owned YouTube “engineered addiction” in children, a lawyer for the plaintiff said on Monday as a landmark trial on the effects of social media on minors began in earnest in a ...

Our brains relish even brief moments of shared experience. Yet, we often overestimate how successfully we communicate in social interactions.