Gene therapy has been successfully used to treat a number of diseases, including immune deficiencies, hereditary blindness, ...

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

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...

Scientists have created an AI version of a monkey brain that recognizes images without requiring the massive computing power of existing AI systems.

Triceratops rerouted its nerves and blood vessels through its nose, turning its massive nasal cavity into a system for ...

Zulfiqar A Bhutta and colleagues argue that the response to children in fragile and conflict affected settings must move beyond event based framings to tackle cumulative and intergenerational ...

A recent study published in Psychological Reports suggests that experiencing abuse or neglect during childhood is linked to specific changes in cognitive skills during young adulthood. The findings ...

Scientists have created a groundbreaking tool that can listen to the electrical signals inside tiny lab-grown human brain ...

Adolescent drug use often triggers moral panics, fear-mongering and the passage of draconian laws to “keep the kids safe” by ...

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 ...

This is the “Exposed Cranium” nebula, also known as Nebula PMR 1. Located some 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Vela, it’s a massive, moribund star coming to the end of its fuel-burning ...

This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.