A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain's smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and ...

Hypertension begins harming the brain surprisingly early, even before measurable blood pressure increases. Key cells related to blood vessels, signaling, and myelin maintenance begin aging prematurely ...

Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity before ever being trained on any data, according to new research from ...

Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology, working in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, have achieved an important breakthrough in brain research. The ...

A £6.9m clinical trial programme that aims to improve brain cancer treatment for patients in Yorkshire has been launched by a ...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These phases are separated by sudden turning points that mark big shifts in how ...

Recently, a neuroimaging study funded by the European Research Council introduced “NextBrain,” a three-dimensional, probabilistic, high-resolution brain atlas that maps the brain into 333 regions to ...

1. Brain connectivity may be the key to understanding the left-handed brain. For many decades, scientists have tried to find out which brain areas differ between left-handers and right-handers, with ...

As more states legalize recreational marijuana use, here’s what the research says about what cannabis is really doing to your ...

Playing music, dancing, creating art — and even playing some types of video games — aren’t just immersive and emotionally rewarding. They may actually slow down brain aging, a new study suggests. By ...