Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature ...

Scientists unveil a draft atlas mapping how brain cells form and mature from embryo to adulthood, offering insights into disorders.

SEATTLE, WASH. — From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a ...

Allen Institute researcher Jerome Lecoq points to one of the diagrams that was used in a study focusing on how the brain interprets optical illusions. (Allen Institute Photo / Erik Dinnel) Our brains ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

AI was the key that unlocked these brain “neighborhoods.” They could also light the way to curing disorders like Alzheimer’s.

Brain cell signals travel along axons, the thin wire-like extensions of neurons, moving signals along the membrane in a pearl ...

Look around, and you'll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way the ...

New research suggests that ultra-processed foods may do more than harm the body: they could alter the brain in unexpected ways.