In his new book, The Brain Cliff, Dr Norman Swan outlines the science of brain ageing and strategies for staving off cognitive decline ...

UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, ...

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A quantum physicist discusses the idea that quantum theory relates to consciousness and how it could exist independently of ...

Duke trustee and alumna Sharon Marcil and her husband, Tom Monahan, have donated $10 million to launch the Marcil-Monahan ...

A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be ...

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses ...

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A new wearable approach to brain stimulation produced an unexpected result that could reshape how flickering-light therapies ...

This intimate picture of how autism mutations work offers scientists new ideas for how to undo their effects. A drug might ...