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As AI continues to evolve, its integration with medical imaging may revolutionize how doctors understand and treat brain conditions, making surgeries safer and more effective for patients worldwide.

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Harvard researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a ...

Addiction hijacks the brain’s neural pathways ... Using optogenetics, which combines fiber optics and genetic engineering to manipulate animal brains with once unimaginable speed and precision ...