We’ve turned survival responses into a black-and-white idea: pathology or wisdom. This is what we miss when we do that, and ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

In fact, a growing body of research suggests that hobbies can support mental health by reducing stress, improving mood and ...

Researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are working on a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.

In this guide to the canine adolescent years, Christopher Pachel, DVM, DACVB, CABC (IAABC), breaks down this critical phase—from hormones to the prefrontal cortex—based on his 2026 VMX session in ...

FOR DECADES, Martin Teicher, M.D., Ph.D., has investigated the impact of trauma on the developing brain. He is currently an associate professor of ...

This paper represents a valuable contribution to our understanding of how LFP oscillations and beta band coordination between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of rats may relate to learning.

In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...