Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UVA researchers found a compound that blocks AVIL, slowing glioblastoma in mice and reaching brain tissue. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC ...

We’re a long way from reviving a frozen human, but new research yields insight.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A global team has built single-cell maps of brain activity across the day in mice, uncovering shifting networks that track fatigue ...

Scans of more than 3,500 people allow scientists to draw up a guide to the brain areas that work together from birth to 100 ...

By scanning the brains of mice throughout their lifespans, scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and the University of Texas at Dallas have discovered that the human brain is not unique in how ...

Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a much quieter conversation. Now a set of new tools is letting researchers ...

Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom ...

A new single-cell atlas shows how epigenetic changes reshape brain cells during aging, revealing genomic instability, ...

Scientists meeting at Center for BrainHealth during its annual BrainHealth Week conference announced the launch of the Society for Brain Health. Poised to address a critical gap in the global health ...

Science-backed strategies The brain does not simply deteriorate with age. Research over the past decade has shifted how ...

A mouse study highlights the role of acetylcholine in behavioral flexibility, offering new insight into the brain mechanisms involved in addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more intricate. Deep inside the skull, entire networks of cells quietly hand off ...