The idea that animals' brain mass and body mass are correlated makes intuitive sense: larger animals, after all, tend to have larger brains than their smaller cousins. However, it's proven difficult ...

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep -- and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep.

Just like stress messes with our brains, research shows that it can also warp the brains of animals. In fact, a new study published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience aims to show just how much ...

Robert Barton has received funding from the BBSRC and Leverhulme Trust. Joanna Baker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

In a significant breakthrough, US researchers have found in animal studies that Alzheimer's disease can be reversed, ...

The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you ...

Neurons in the brain zip messages to one another along long white fibers called axons. Previously scientists traced axon pathways in dissected animal brains, but now they can see the structure of this ...

Researchers have crossed a threshold that once belonged squarely to science fiction: they have built working models of brains ...

The world, and countless generations of interactions with it, coaxed our brains to evolve in the unique way that humans perceive reality. And yet, thanks to the past century's developments in ...