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

The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...

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

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, ...

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

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, on Thursday unveiled the Functional Repair of Neocortical Tissue (FRONT) ...

To navigate something as complex and dynamic as the brain, a map would help. Researchers have learned an enormous amount about how we think, what drives our behaviors, and why we feel the way we do ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

Now why would someone throw paint all over a perfectly good human brain? The good news is that this isn’t a paint splattered brain, but the colors are meaningful. This is a functional magnetic ...