Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

The neonatal period, which is defined as the first 28 days after birth, is known to be a crucial stage in the development of ...

Researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are working on a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.

What happens to the human brain when the force of gravity is removed from the equation? New research is beginning to reveal that not only is space travel a challenge to the human body’s muscles and ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Anthony Leonardo is a neuroscientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s research facility who has created an environment to track dragonflies’ neuron transmissions. This research will enable him to ...

A new study showcases how brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between ourselves and the outside world ...

To navigate something as complex and dynamic as the brain, a map would help. Researchers have learned an enormous amount about how we think, what drives our behaviors, and why we feel the way we do ...

In a July 2018 MIT News article, “ Charting the Cerebellum, ” first author Xavier Guell of MIT's McGovern Institute of Brain Research, describes his team’s state-of-the-art mapping of motor and ...