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

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

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

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

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

Most cell surface proteins did not. But 16 did, including two found in the human dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra, a ...

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

Researchers have identified OTULIN, an immune-regulating enzyme, as a key trigger of tau buildup in the brain. When OTULIN ...

A stem cell therapy for stroke restored neuron function and revealed how transplanted cells navigate the nervous system.

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on the ...