Researchers used AI and deep learning to find a link between brain structure and navigation skills but found no measurable ...

On the computer screens, the mouse brain is shown from several angles. Then you click, and a small area of the brain is ...

Understanding how a healthy brain works can provide insight into how it fails, too. Scientists hope that studying organoids derived from humans with neurodevelopmental disorders — particularly ...

The neuropeptide oxytocin is a special messenger substance that nerve cells use to communicate with each other. It is acting ...

The limbic system helps regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory. It consists of structures that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above ...

New research finds that sleep is essential for protecting brain mitochondria by transferring toxic metabolic waste from neurons to glial cells for disposal.

Once scanned, each spider brain image required painstaking manual mapping of individual structures—a process that can't yet be automated. "We don't have AI to do these things, we don't yet have enough ...

Brain activity has been detected up to an hour after cardiac arrest, challenging long-held beliefs about when death truly ...