Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan ...

An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

A new study suggests that the long-term antidepressant effects of psychedelics may be driven by persistent changes in how neurons fire rather than by the permanent growth of new brain cell connections ...

An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops ...

Every three minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with dementia. It is not an easy diagnosis to receive for the patient or ...

New research by UCLA Health and UC San Francisco has uncovered why certain brain cells are more resilient than others to the ...

Apple's New Lip-Reading Tech Is a Weird Signal of Where We're Heading ...

When the brain is asked to stretch beyond routine, that slight mental discomfort is often the sign that the brain is being ...

A new study suggests low doses of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, may protect memory and reduce brain ...

Ashwagandha is a small shrub that's having a big moment. Used in traditional Indian medicine for thousands of years, ...

Neuroscientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder have discovered that a certain neural circuit in an incompletely ...