Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.

On the computer screens, the mouse brain is shown from several angles. Then you click, and a small area of the brain is ...

Understanding how a healthy brain works can provide insight into how it fails, too. Scientists hope that studying organoids derived from humans with neurodevelopmental disorders — particularly ...

The neuropeptide oxytocin is a special messenger substance that nerve cells use to communicate with each other. It is acting ...

New research finds that sleep is essential for protecting brain mitochondria by transferring toxic metabolic waste from neurons to glial cells for disposal.

Brain activity has been detected up to an hour after cardiac arrest, challenging long-held beliefs about when death truly ...