Understanding the gut-brain axis is key to addressing eating disorders. This study highlights microbiota's influence and ...

Researchers reveal how modeling the human brain’s hidden wiring could push AI beyond its current limits into human-like cognition.

Observational studies of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression have long tied ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

Gray matter is made up of neuron cell bodies and dendrites and is responsible for processing and interpreting information, ...

Inaccurate metaphors about the mind can cause real harm, for instance leading educators to 'train' children like algorithms.

The large size of the cerebrum—especially the cerebral cortex—relative to the rest of the brain, is a uniquely human trait that conventional wisdom says makes us smarter than animals.

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections.

A major study has found that psychopaths have markedly different brain structures to the rest of the population, offering ...

A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood vessels in the brain. A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and kidneys.

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular “traffic cops” known ...