Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are observed in no other animal species. For centuries, scientists have been trying ...

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are closely related to chimps, the slight differences in ...

New research indicates that the structural organization of the human brain does not develop in a continuous, linear fashion ...

A cutting-edge laboratory technique that turns human stem cells into brain-like tissue now recapitulates human brain development more accurately than ever, according to a new study from Case Western ...

Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder seem to work on brain areas ...