Cambridge researchers have revealed a detailed picture of how the human brain grows from mid-pregnancy through the first ...

Fear has a scent. Here’s how this invisible chemical signal has shaped human perceptions, emotions and survival instincts.

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

A neural circuit hidden in an understudied region of the brain plays a critical role in turning temporary pain into pain that ...

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

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

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

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

UCLA scientists have developed advanced miniature 3D tumor organoid models that make it possible to study glioblastoma tumors in a setting that closely mirrors the human brain, shedding light on how ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the answer may be in a surprising twist of evolutionary fate: one of the brain’s ...

New research by UCLA Health and UC San Francisco has uncovered why certain brain cells are more resilient than others to the buildup of a toxic protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and ...

Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...