Cambridge researchers have revealed a detailed picture of how the human brain grows from mid-pregnancy through the first ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are closely related to chimps, the slight differences in ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom. Brain organoids, which ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

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

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

Researchers outline a roadmap for applying transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive technique for stimulating the brain ...