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

For more than a century, the story of the brain has been told as a tale of neurons, with every thought and memory traced to their electrical chatter. That narrative is now being rewritten as evidence ...

After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain, revealing the exquisite structures and ...

Can the brain function when its architecture is altered? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) demonstrates that ...

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease that results in memory loss and cognitive decline. It's caused by brain cells dying and the brain itself shrinking from a buildup of proteins. Millions of seniors ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

A team of neuroscientists at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, in Lisbon, has been able to map single neural connections over long distances in the brain. "These are the first measurements of ...

The brain, much like muscles, strengthens through challenge and rest. Neuroplasticity allows adult brains to form new ...

Using cortical organoids from individuals with autism, researchers tracked gene activity over development. Early ...