Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the brains of mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease and preserves cognitive function ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

Perhaps the most compelling finding from a UW Medicine study to help stroke victims recover hand movement is that if its first subject applied to be part of the study today, he would not qualify.