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Study suggests infants with autism risk may be less able to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar speech patterns.

How does the way in which we talk about addiction affect the likelihood of substance users to seek help?

What if scientists could manipulate your brain so that a traumatic memory lost its emotional power over your psyche? Researchers believe that a small structure in the brain could hold the keys to future therapeutic techniques for treating depression, anxiety, and PTSD, someday allowing clinicians to enhance positive memories or suppress negative ones.

Artificial intelligence experts have teamed up with control experts to develop a system that uses a deep neural network to help autonomous drones "learn" how to land more safely and quickly, while gobbling up less power.

McMaster researchers have developed a simple and highly novel form of computing by shining patterned bands of light and shadow through different facets of a polymer cube and reading the combined results that emerge.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet have used data on more than 230,000 intensive care patients to develop a new algorithm. Among other things, it uses disease history from the past 23 years to predict patients' chances of survival in intensive care units.

Spatial navigation is an essential cognitive function, frequently impaired in patients suffering from neurological disorders. Previous studies into the neuronal basis of spatial navigation have suggested that the activity of both individual nerve cells and large cell assemblies in the brain both play a crucial role. Theories on the relationship have now been explored in a new study.

A new University of California, Irvine-led pilot study finds that crowdsourced "crash alerts" occur three minutes prior to their corresponding California Highway Patrol (CHP)-reported crash, suggesting that using these data could mean the difference between life and death.

Virtual reality (VR) can identify early Alzheimer's disease more accurately than "gold standard" cognitive tests currently in use, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge.

Adolescence is a highly vulnerable period for the development of the brain. New presentations at the 2019 Canadian Neuroscience Meeting have reflected on the effects of cannabis on the adolescent brain.