A preclinical study published in Nature has found evidence that the hippocampus, the brain region that stores memory, also ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered that while brain neuron changes, including cell loss, may begin in early life, a drug long-approved for other conditions might be ...

Science is clear that 10,000 steps isn’t the magic number. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t another magic number out there. A new study out of Harvard Medical School recently published in Nature ...

One of the brain’s biggest benefits from exercise – the birth of new neurons – may not even require any movement. Instead, the beneficial “packages” circulating in the blood after working out can be ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom. Brain organoids, which ...

The clock was ticking: a brain was en route. Two workers at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center hurried to prepare a bucket of dry ice and lay out gleaming scalpels, knives, and forceps for the ...

I’m going to give away one of my big writing secrets. When I’ve been stuck in a big narrative puzzle while writing a book, I’ve learned the trick is to clear my head and take a nap. I’ve never really ...