A largely overlooked structure inside our cells may play a crucial role in how the brain forms, offering new insight into ...

Differences in the physical shape and wiring of the brain can directly contribute to the development of attention and social ...

Your brain reacts to everything you do each day. New research shows that sleep, stress, diet, and environment shape brain ...

Artificial intelligence may write award-winning essays and diagnose disease with remarkable accuracy, but biological brains still hold the upper hand in at least one crucial domain: flexibility.

A growing body of mouse and rat research is rewriting the textbook on how dopamine, the brain’s primary reward signal, actually works. The emerging picture centers on acetylcholine, a second chemical ...

The human brain remains one of the most complex and least understood organs, but recent breakthroughs in genetic research have unveiled startling insights into how genes shape brain structure and ...

The timing of our brain waves shapes which words we hear. Researchers used psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to test whether neural timing influences perception of more or less ...