The study builds on a body of research. Scientists discover concerning new threat to human brain health: 'Expected to be a ...

Recent research conducted by Swedish scientists has made a revolutionary discovery: the human brain can continue to produce new cells, even in old age. This finding challenges long-held beliefs about ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the ...

That the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea that’s gaining traction - and is changing our understanding of intelligence, consciousness and creativity ...

New research reveals that lithium helps protect against neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's disease by preventing toxic amyloid ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Miniature models of the brain have revealed a "previously unappreciated" role of microglia, a type of cell found within the ...

In the Materials Horizons Emerging Investigator Series, Dr. Eunho Lee from SeoulTech talks about his recent study on novel ...

So President Obama has proposed a Brain Activity Map (BAM) project to reveal some of these remaining secrets, using the Human Genome Project as a model. Not all scientists, however, are on board.