Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature ...

AI was the key that unlocked these brain “neighborhoods.” They could also light the way to curing disorders like Alzheimer’s.

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

Allen Institute researcher Jerome Lecoq points to one of the diagrams that was used in a study focusing on how the brain interprets optical illusions. (Allen Institute Photo / Erik Dinnel) Our brains ...

A computer rendering of a parvalbumin-positive neuron, which researchers were able to produce in large quantities for the first time in in-vitro models. Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible ...

Brain cell signals travel along axons, the thin wire-like extensions of neurons, moving signals along the membrane in a pearl ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say intercellular nanotubes (thin, green-dominant bridge-like connections) contribute to additional layer of communicational network among neurons. Scientists at ...

Look around, and you'll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way the ...

New research suggests that ultra-processed foods may do more than harm the body: they could alter the brain in unexpected ways.