A study in Science Advances links an ancient virus to a switched-off gene in chimpanzees that helps human brain cells mature ...

A new preprint study involving both macaque monkeys and humans suggests that the brain may be switching back and forth ...

A study linked the ancient PTERV1 retroviral insertion in chimpanzees to suppressed LINC00662 activity, which is involved in ...

A landmark centre aims to discover exactly how the human brain develops for the very first time. A microscopy image showing a ...

A chip as small as a fingernail is expected to make the treatment of mental illnesses more precise. Researchers at EPFL have ...

EPFL developed the low-power implantable LogSync chip to analyze synchrony between brain regions and generate adaptive stimulation triggers.

Neurons in the hippocampus of patients under general anesthesia tracked the grammar of short stories and carried information ...

Pandemics are scourges, but one that afflicted primates millions of years ago separated the evolution of chimpanzees from ...

Radio-wave stimulation may boost the brain's waste-clearing system in mice, but human Alzheimer's treatment is still far from proven.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a therapeutic technique that delivers electrical pulses to specific areas of the brain via an ...

LogSync chips, measuring approximately 4x2 mm. 2026 EPFL / Lundi13 - CC-BY-SA 4.0 EPFL researchers have developed an ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how psilocybin, the psychoactive compound ...