The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

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

In mice, blocking heart-to-brain signals improved healing after a heart attack, hinting at new targets for cardiac therapy.

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

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

By Vijay Kumar Malesu New mouse data reveal that ageing neurons struggle to clear synaptic proteins, shifting the burden to ...

The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on the ...