Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

“We can’t actually build brains,” University of Sussex mathematical physics professor Thomas Nowotny told New Scientist.

Her research group recorded and analysed the activity of more than 24,000 neurons in awake mice and created the first ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

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 teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind ...

The neonatal period, which is defined as the first 28 days after birth, is known to be a crucial stage in the development of ...