The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...

Scientists have created a super-map of the brain containing 30 million cells to trace the prenatal origins of diseases.

A recent study has found that a specific single-celled organism has the capacity for Pavlovian associative learning without a brain or even a neuron.

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps of the developing human brain. The atlas captures nearly every cell type, ...

The human brain can do many amazing things, but self-repair is not one of its repertoire of abilities. Once neurons die—from trauma, stroke, or disease—they rarely grow back. Scientists have been ...

AS we age, brain cells face increasing challenges from inflammation, oxidative stress, reduced blood flow, and the buildup of ...