The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

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

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

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 ...

Researchers mapped early brain growth from mid-pregnancy to the first month after birth and found signs that sex-linked differences emerge surprisingly early.

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

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

1. Childhood, from birth to age 9, during which time the brain is continually pruning away haphazardly created synaptic connections forged as early learning, unlearning and relearning chaotically ...

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

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...

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

Researchers found that a good night’s sleep may help the brain clear proteins tied to Alzheimer’s.