In Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, a protein called tau can pile up inside brain cells and form toxic clumps. Those ...

A landmark study suggests that this daily habit may reshape how your mind activates.

Mount Sinai and BPGbio scientists uncover novel molecular drivers from live brain samples that direct human brain structure ...

Cambridge researchers have revealed a detailed picture of how the human brain grows from mid-pregnancy through the first ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD By seamlessly tracking brain growth from the womb into early life, researchers uncover when key brain regions surge and how subtle sex differences emerge before birth. Study: ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Researchers found that a good night’s sleep may help the brain clear proteins tied to Alzheimer’s.

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

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

Fear has a scent. Here’s how this invisible chemical signal has shaped human perceptions, emotions and survival instincts.

Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...