The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

Human navigation turns out to be less like following a static map and more like tuning a control knob inside the brain. New ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

The bean-shaped organelles are now being recognized for their part in immune signaling, stress responses, and neural functioning.

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Intermittent energy restriction for weight loss leads to coordinated changes across the brain, gut, and microbiome axis.