Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Clumps of cells known as organoids are helping us to understand the brain, and the latest version comes equipped with ...

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...