Multiple teams have used powerful imaging, targeted placebo experiments, and AI to map and understand the brainstem’s pain ...

You just left a dinner party. The food was great, the company was better, and you genuinely enjoyed yourself. So why do you ...

Microglial activity appears to determine when amyloid becomes biologically significant, reshaping how clinicians interpret ...

The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia gets a lot of different reactions from a lot of different people. Museum leaders want you ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National ...

How do wounded soldiers power through to achieve feats of heroism? Understanding how the brain works is a key to avoid losing wars.

In a little over ten years, organoid models—miniature, lab-grown clusters of cells that imitate real organs—have transformed how we study human development and disease while accelerating drug ...

Every clonal raider ant lives a nearly identical life. Each new generation of these blind, queenless ants is born at the same ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate ...

The basic concept of human intelligence entails self-awareness alongside the ability to reason and apply logic to one’s ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models.

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...