A cluster of lab-grown human brain cells has apparently made the leap to successfully playing a very rudimentary video game ...

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

By measuring the magnetic fields of the brain, researchers found that different contemplative practices uniquely change how ...

A Japanese research team has demonstrated in rat experiments that stem cells from human primary tooth pulp may help treat ...

What can a honey bee tell us about human learning? According to researchers at Virginia Tech and Arizona State University, ...

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

Sickle cell disease is often thought of solely as a blood disorder, but new research from the Wood Neuro Research Group ...

Researchers found three master genes that alter brain development in Down syndrome, offering new clues about learning and memory differences.

Researchers at a Melbourne start-up have taught their “biological computer” made from living human brain cells to play Doom.

A tiny blob of gelatinous tissue sitting in a dish represents a giant leap forward in human brain research. Known as an organoid, it's a living 3D model of a human organ; one of the first to ...