OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - You can hear cold and flu season: people coughing, sneezing, the phone ringing as people call in sick. Health care officials say respiratory illnesses in our area are spiking. The ...

The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be ...

Spending on children's behavioral health accounted for 40% of all medical expenditures, according to 2022 data, nearly doubling since 2011, local researchers said. Pediatric behavioral health ...

Neurons are the specialized cells that allow our bodies to transmit impulses, like factories that process inputs. They send signals that help us catch a ball, recognize a favorite song or pull our ...

A Cloudflare outage disrupted major websites, including X and ChatGPT, for several hours on Tuesday. Cloudflare apologized, with CTO Dane Knecht saying it had "failed" its customers. The company said ...

A biomedical engineering graduate student holds a brain model of a man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis who uses a brain-computer interface to speak. The student has added functionality to the brain ...

Predictive processing posits that the brain minimizes discrepancies between internal predictions and sensory inputs, offering a unifying account of perception, cognition, and action. In voluntary ...

(Nanowerk News) Our brains are masters of efficiency. “Biology is very energy optimized,” says Yevgeny Berdichevsky, an associate professor of bioengineering and electrical and computer engineering at ...

A critical function performed by visual systems is the fast and reliable detection of features within the environment, such as moving objects or approaching threats. Neurons predicted to encode these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Associate professor Dong Song (L) and first author Xiwei She (R) discuss their machine learning model. (CREDIT: USC) Scientists ...

Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things happen. But how it processes what you see—like objects or images—has been a ...