A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

The cerebral cortex processes sensory information via a network of neural connections. But how are these signals adjusted to refine our perceptions? A team from the University of Geneva ...

You probably have a general understanding of the human brain: a network of nerve cells connected by synapses. Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve cells, ...

Neurons' ability to change their behavior in response to new stimuli is what makes learning possible. And even neurons' ...

A study by the Center for Regenerative Therapies in Dresden suggests what every parent with children who scream all the time ...

How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, ...

Researchers found a powerful protein that helps strengthen the messaging system of the brain. The discovery could lead to new ...

Using lasers, researchers triggered optical illusion signals in mouse brains, uncovering how the brain fills in missing ...

A collaborative French–Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing.

Researchers who induced strokes in mice and then transplanted human neural stem cells into their brains found that neurons ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.