For more than eighty years, deep learning has relied on a simplified model of brain function. Now, a Pittsburgh startup ...

Ask a scientist what memory is, and you'll probably get long-term potentiation (LTP) as an answer. To understand what LTP is, you need a little basic nerve cell (neuron) anatomy. Neurons have a ...

Neurodegenerative disorders progress in a variety of ways, but one characteristic many of them share is the breakdown of axons, a cable-like fiber that extends from a neuron and transmits electrical ...