One of the defining features of humans is our brain's remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and more. These abilities stem not just from our large brain size, but also from ...
For almost a century, budding neuroscientists have been taught that the headband-like strip of brain tissue over our ears ...
Higher levels of psychopathic personality traits mirror a reduction in the thickness of the outer layer of the brain across ...
The vertebrate brain is organized into subregions that are specialized in function and distinct in cytoarchitecture and connectivity. This spatial specialization of function and structure is ...
The cytoskeleton gives cells their shape and helps them move. Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and Ludwig Maximilian University now show that, in neural stem cells, proteins of the cytoskeleton are ...
Plastic particles smaller than a grain of sand have been found lodged in human brain tissue at concentrations that dwarf ...
Researchers discover rotating spiral brain waves that travel across cortical networks, acting as a space-and-time clock for ...
Scientists once viewed the thalamus largely as a relay station: a kind of biological switchboard routing sensory information ...
The brain undergoes a full renovation during menopause. Although these changes are profound, we’re learning that the ...