Scientists in Austria are studying live human brain cells and comparing them to those of mice. Their findings raise questions ...

A study in mice finds that a high-sucrose diet during youth has long-term implications for learning and brain connectivity.

The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

The next generation of deep-brain stimulation automatically corrects the precise brain waves that create symptoms of ...

A new study published in Brain Research suggests that adding okra to the diet can protect against long-term metabolic problems caused by early-life overfeeding. In a rat model, okra supplementation ...

This important study presents a new method for longitudinally tracking cells in two-photon imaging data that addresses the specific challenges of imaging neurons in the developing cortex. It provides ...

The large size of the cerebrum—especially the cerebral cortex—relative to the rest of the brain, is a uniquely human trait that conventional wisdom says makes us smarter than animals.

The Health and Human Services Department under Kennedy took unprecedented steps to change how vaccines are evaluated, ...

For the first time, a lab-grown brain-computer system has demonstrated that human neurons living and evolving in an artificial system respond to medication by learning, in real time, in a game ...

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception.

A new study has revealed compelling evidence that brain criticality—a dynamic balance between neural excitation and inhibition—has a strong genetic foundation and is associated with cognitive ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.