The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a program Thursday to advance brain-repair research and develop ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a neurodevelopmental condition, is often associated with difficulties in social communication ...

Comparing the human brain to both species meant we could not only assess which parts of our brain are unique to us, but also which parts are likely to be shared heritage with our non-human relatives.

Every human brain has roughly 200 billion neurons ‒ the brain cells that send electrical signals. When he was in college in the ’90s, Ren said, he was taught there were two types of neurons.

Scientists build the largest-ever atlas of over 3,000 cells in the human brain : ... it will represent just one part of a much larger effort to understand the human brain. Other parts include ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

Now, researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet say they’ve found the clearest answer yet. They report the discovery of ...

That map of the primary motor cortex — the motor homunculus — shows how this brain region is divided into sections assigned to each body part that can be controlled voluntarily (SN: 6/16/15).

Mysterious, spiral signals have been discovered in the human brain, and the scientists who found the swirls think they could help to organize complex brain activity.

The human brain is an amazing organ. It controls memory and learning, the senses (hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch), and emotion. It also controls other parts of the body, including muscles ...