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The data showed there is "non-linear change across development" in the brain, suggesting it does not continue on one steady ...

Peer reviewers hail study offering framework to decode disorders like autism and schizophrenia, where neural communication breaks down "If you wish to prosper, build roads first," ran a popular slogan ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers have mapped how different parts of the brain work together. Specifically, they ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels—an advance that could usher in a new era of research into ...

Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different environments—whether it's swimming in a lake or walking a path—without ...

You may have heard the myth that humans use only 10% of their brains. That statement is patently untrue — most people use all of their brains, all of the time. But for people who have survived a ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a grain of sand, can receive electrical signals and respond to them — much as ...