Mount Sinai and BPGbio scientists uncover novel molecular drivers from live brain samples that direct human brain structure ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD By seamlessly tracking brain growth from the womb into early life, researchers uncover when key brain regions surge and how subtle sex differences emerge before birth. Study: ...

Scientists discovered why some neurons resist tau toxicity, identifying CRL5SOCS4 as a crucial defense and linking ...

Cambridge researchers have revealed a detailed picture of how the human brain grows from mid-pregnancy through the first ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

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

New research by UCLA Health and UC San Francisco has uncovered why certain brain cells are more resilient than others to the buildup of a toxic protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and ...

Fear has a scent. Here’s how this invisible chemical signal has shaped human perceptions, emotions and survival instincts.

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

Researchers at University of Notre Dame reveal evidence for the Network Neuroscience Theory, showing intelligence as ...

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

Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...