As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

Simulating billions of neurons is becoming possible. Measuring one living human brain well enough to copy it remains the ...

Scientists discovered that human microglia, immune cells that help shape developing brain circuits, can take four to eight years to mature instead of just weeks as they do in mice. The unusually slow ...

Human brain organoids cultured for more than five years continued to mature according to an intrinsic developmental clock, ...

The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported by evolutionarily ancient brain mechanisms, according to a new study from ...

A human-specific gene influences brain immune cell development. These cells, called microglia, mature much slower than in ...

UT Dallas Cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Ezra Winter-Nelson (left) and Dr. Gagan Wig, associate professor of psychology at UT Dallas, have written an article for Proceedings of the ...

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In a two-story brick office building in Emeryville, neuroscientists are making plans to fit mice with diminutive brain-computer interfaces to record patterns of neural activity while they perform ...

Experiments conducted on squid brains in the early days of neuroscience created misunderstandings about the workings of the human brain that have persisted for 70 years, according to a new study.