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

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new package of papers examines the largest map yet of mammalian brain tissue. The map shows one cubic ...

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

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

Explore new insights into neurodegenerative therapies as researchers observe learning mechanisms in the living brain.

There is new evidence that the cells responsible for communication in the brain may be structured differently in children with autism. Researchers discovered that in some areas of the brain neuron ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

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

A genome-wide CRISPR study maps 331 genes essential for early brain development, identifying PEDS1 as a new ...

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