Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they have successfully used a highly specialized microscope to capture more precise details of how one of the most ...

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a ...

In an early-stage clinical trial, the therapy nearly doubled the expected survival time of young patients. Still, experts ...

Leafy greens like spinach and kale offer major brain-healthy nutrients like “vitamin K, lutein, folate, and beta carotene,” ...

The new scientific concept of Bodyoids involves human-like bodies grown from stem cells without brains or consciousness.

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

Scientists at Auburn University have uncovered a fundamental principle of how brain cells stay connected, and their discovery could change how we understand Alzheimer's disease.

A new model of brain metabolism – the most complex ever generated –shows how altering key chemicals could restore aged cells ...

As we get older, the essential cleaning processes that our brains need to keep functioning start to break down and fail.