The teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

A team from UNIGE has shown that neurons positioned in the wrong place can still perform their function without disrupting ...

Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...

In the late 1800s, Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal drew hundreds of images of neurons. His exquisite work influenced our understanding of what they look like: Cells with a bulbous center ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Alzheimer’s disease has long looked like a slow-motion wildfire, starting in one part of the brain and then advancing along ...