Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

New research indicates that the structural organization of the human brain does not develop in a continuous, linear fashion but rather progresses through five distinct phases separated by specific ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

Findings from the Living Brain Project reveal how senescence processes involved in early brain development may also shape brain aging ...

Explore the connection between neurodegeneration and cellular senescence in understanding brain structure and ageing.

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

A neuroscientist survey shows that 40 percent think it might be possible to preserve a human brain, potentially well enough ...