Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has ...

UCR scientists create a fully synthetic model for growing brain cells that could allow for animal-free drug testing.

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

A team of researchers has identified a previously unrecognized hub for waste clearance in the human brain, located along a major artery supplying the brain’s protective outer layer. This discovery, ...

In a July 2018 MIT News article, “ Charting the Cerebellum, ” first author Xavier Guell of MIT's McGovern Institute of Brain Research, describes his team’s state-of-the-art mapping of motor and ...

Researchers have created functional brain-like tissue without relying on any animal-derived materials, marking a major step toward more ethical and reproducible neurological research.

Despite widespread skepticism, the National Science Foundation and DARPA have invested millions of dollars in organoid-based ...

Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking preliminary atlas charting the intricate development of brain cells from early ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Anthony Leonardo is a neuroscientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s research facility who has created an environment to track dragonflies’ neuron transmissions. This research will enable him to ...