The Allen Institute in Seattle says scientists have now learned enough about how the brain works to start fixing it when it ...

Ian Sample talks to Prof Maiken Nedergaard about her groundbreaking work on the brain’s waste-disposal system and how subsequent research is building a picture of sleep as anything but a quiet, inacti ...

Jeff Carroll is part of a new effort to accelerate the development of targeted cures for a handful of neurodegenerative ...

Neuroscience research works to understand which subregions of the brain are utilized during the dance creative process.

A newly identified group of amygdala neurons appears to play a central role in anxiety and social behavior. Restoring normal ...

Some neuroscientists argue that the roots of experience lie deep inside the brain. If they’re right, the consciousness club ...

The science academies of the G7 countries released three joint “S7” statements  to inform discussions during the G7 summit to be held in Evian, France, in June, as well as to offer science-informed ...

Short-term memories are thought to be formed deep within the brain in structures such as the hippocampus, but little is known ...

You might say it’s just a pigment of your imagination ...

Blame cell death and fungi for brain decay, not TikTok. TikTok won't really make your brain rot. That doesn't happen until after death. While most brains rot quickly, researchers have found a ...

Families gathered around the bedsides of brain-injured loved ones who show no outward signs of awareness may be closer than ...

Claude Lemieux's family announced that his brain will be donated to science on Saturday to study the long-term effects of ...