Neuroscience

Expert discusses how BRAIN Initiative will affect neuroscience

Mapping the human brain, with its billions of neurons, is one of science's most elusive projects. But a new federal program—the $100 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative—could ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New study underscores the role of race and poverty in COVID-19

A new analysis by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) offers a novel perspective on the disproportionate impact that COVID-19 has had on people of color, low-income populations, and other structurally disadvantaged ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Modeling how the a pandemic makes us tired

Societies act rationally and in solidarity—but also increasingly experience a sense of fatigue, says a study by Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon