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

Six months ago, 4-year-old Jose Morales-Ortiz was struggling to say two-word sentences. Jose has severe autism, and he couldn’t have a conversation and wouldn’t answer to his name ...

New research suggests that the most ancient evolutionary parts of the brain could be contributing to consciousness.

Redefining Research: This study shows that a human-based brain organoid model can mimic key brain functions such as ...

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

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

The brain never rests: even during deep sleep or under anesthesia, it maintains rhythmic electrical activity known as slow ...

Many mammals physically pivot their ears to hone in on a particular sound, and now it seems that a similar action takes place ...

Scientists from the Nencki Institute and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have revealed a key mechanism in ...

Both brain hemispheres briefly share the same object in your vision at the moment it crosses from left to right, or right to ...

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give rise ...