Neurons in the wrong place in the brain can still carry out their normal functions, a new study finds, challenging long-held ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

The neonatal period, which is defined as the first 28 days after birth, is known to be a crucial stage in the development of ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...

Many horse owners think the existence of the prefrontal cortex is a major controversy in equine science. It’s not. It’s just an area that’s riddled with misinformation. Curiously, most people—horsey ...