The Living Brain Project is the first large-scale effort to study fresh brain tissue collected during neurosurgery. To date, ...

Twelve laboratories around the world have joined forces to map neuronal activity in a mouse’s brain as it makes decisions.

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

By working to understand how new AI systems integrate flexible and incremental learning, researchers gained insights about ...

A huge project led by neuroscientists from all across the world has achieved world-first insight into what decision-making looks like in the brain. It marks the first time a single-cell, ...

A growing body of research suggests that the brain clears waste during sleep via the glymphatic system. How does this work ...