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

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

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

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

Anthony Leonardo is a neuroscientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s research facility who has created an environment to track dragonflies’ neuron transmissions. This research will enable him to ...