India's new brainstem atlas offers scientists an unprecedented map of one of the brain's least known regions.

Implantable devices in the brain have been used for about 30 years to assist people with disabilities in completing motor ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

In my view, we are in the midst of one of human history’s five substantial rewrites of the human operating system.

Johns Hopkins University researchers have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels—an advance that could usher in a new era of research into ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

Scientists have mapped how a brain protein spreads Alzheimer’s between neurons. This discovery could lead to new ways to halt ...

A study of 225 newborns suggests prenatal estrogen may have played a role in the evolution of larger human brains. Boys with ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Neuroimaging and animal research reveal how pregnancy hormones remodel neural circuits and leave a long-lasting mark on women ...

A small device that senses light and reacts like a brain cell could change how machines see and think. Built at the nanoscale ...

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.