The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Groundbreaking research from Karolinska Institutet reveals that humans can grow new neurons well into old age, offering new hope ...