Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring ...

Indiana University researchers are advancing the fight against Alzheimer’s disease using brain organoids, cutting-edge ...

Can the brain function when its architecture is altered? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) demonstrates that ...

An international research team has uncovered new insights into healthy brain aging. The researchers found that aging leads to ...

Consciousness has long been described as one of science's toughest puzzles. Researchers still do not fully understand how physical brain tissue gives ...

A headless cockroach isn’t fictional biology. Here’s how its decentralized systems keep it alive for days after being ...

Researchers mapped early brain growth from mid-pregnancy to the first month after birth and found signs that sex-linked differences emerge surprisingly early.

Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in or around the brain. They can be primary (originating in the brain) or secondary (metastatic, spreading to the brain from cancer elsewhere). They can also ...

An international research team led the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena, Germany, and the ...

Our world is a rich tapestry of sensory information, constantly bombarding our nervous system with a vast array of stimuli. How does the brain make sense of ...

Experts say the more we challenge our brains as we age, the more resilient it becomes—and “learning a new instrument is a full-brain workout.” After the age of 40, the average brain decreases 5 ...

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: ...