An early-stage study has found that a common chemotherapy drug disrupts lymphatic cells in the tissue surrounding the brain.

For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps of the developing human brain. The atlas captures nearly every cell type, ...

By borrowing ideas from the brain, UT Dallas researchers have created hardware that learns on its own with minimal energy use ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps of the developing human brain. The atlas captures nearly every cell type, ...

Think you see the world as it is? Think again. The brain’s shortcuts make us efficient—but also deeply biased.

A breakthrough in neuromorphic computing could lower the energy consumption of chips and accelerate progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of En ...

A new Northwestern University study using patient nervous tissue and lab-grown human neurons has uncovered how a key disease ...

New research reveals that the human brain contains a built-in pain map that activates in different regions when relieving ...

According to neuroscientist Ben Rein’s new book, Why Brains Need Friends, it comes down to our brains. As he explains in the book, that grey matter in our heads is exquisitely optimized for social ...

How does the brain take out its trash? That is the job of the brain's lymphatic drainage system, and efforts to understand ...

A new study has pinpointed how the APOE4 gene variant sabotages the brain’s energy balance, blocking neurons from burning fat ...