The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

SML was born out of that documentation—out of the work that Parker, Butterss, Bellerose, and Johnson had put into ETA for a ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the centre of the human brain. This aids our understanding ...

A four–amino acid peptide called CAQK has shown powerful brain-protective effects in animal models of traumatic brain injury. Delivered through a standard IV, it zeroes in on injured brain tissue, ...

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.

Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and adjust goals even in the face ...

We have long believed that brain growth stops once we pass the age of 20, after which the brain only ages and degenerates.

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...