A collection of studies that chart how mammalian brain cells grow and differentiate is a ‘very valuable’ tool for ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

A sweeping analysis of more than 70 studies reveals that short-term fasting has little effect on how the adult brain performs ...

"This fundamentally changes how we think about the evolution of complex nervous systems," said biologist Jack Ullrich-Lüter.

For decades, scientists have known that motor proteins like kinesin-2 ferry vital cargo along microtubule "highways" inside ...

A team at Carnegie Mellon University is helping kids understand artificial intelligence with a soft, squishy, LED-lit neural ...

A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain ...

A collaborative effort is trying to construct the cell atlas of the developing brains of humans and animal models. Using advanced single-cell and spatial technologies, they mapped how brain cell types ...

Past psychology studies suggest that people tend to remember emotional events, such as their wedding, the birth of a child or traumatic experiences, more vividly than neutral events, such as a routine ...

Among the newly identified brain cell types were some in the neocortex and the striatum region, which controls movement and certain other functions.

A new study has discovered a direct link between the number of milliseconds it takes a child’s brain to process the form of a ...