The teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind ...

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...

The next time you reach for a memory or make a quick choice, a storm of tiny signals races through your brain. Scientists can ...

There is new evidence that the cells responsible for communication in the brain may be structured differently in children with autism. Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the ...

In the late 1800s, Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal drew hundreds of images of neurons. His exquisite work influenced our understanding of what they look like: Cells with a bulbous center ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Alzheimer’s disease has long looked like a slow-motion wildfire, starting in one part of the brain and then advancing along ...