In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully grown living brain tissue in a laboratory setting.

While there is a vast amount of information about the human brain and how it develops and works, much of the organ is still ...

Over the course of their lives, humans can sometimes acquire fear responses to specific stimuli, animals, objects or ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few ...

This moving dot depicts something few people have ever seen: fresh cerebrospinal fluid flowing from the spinal cord into the ...

Sleep is composed of different stages, each marked by specific patterns of brain activity. The non-rapid eye movement stages—N1, N2, and N3—progress from light to deep sleep. During N3, also ...

"Although the cerebral cortex becomes thinner overall, some of its layers remain stable or, surprisingly, are even thicker with age. Presumably because they are particularly solicited and thus retain ...

New research reveals how breaking down stored glucose (glycogen) in the brain may reduce toxic protein buildup linked to ...

Your brain uses some of the same language and cognitive systems for both reading and listening, but it also performs ...

New research reveals that primates with longer thumbs tend to have larger brains, suggesting that manual dexterity and brain ...