Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

The teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Japanese scientists have created miniature human brain circuits by joining lab-grown thalamus and cortex models from stem ...

To study how a key chemical neuromodulator affects signaling in the brain's cortex, Garrett Neske, PhD, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Whitehall Foundation, a nonprofit ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

But many scientists still believe that the scientific keys to the kingdom of consciousness are within reach. Lately, some are ...