The ability to use language to communicate is one of things that makes us human. At MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain ...

Emotions on a first date may be about the person you're with, or may be about emotional memories triggered by your companion.

Developmental electrophysiological adaptations and heat-sensitive proteins, such as TRPV3, in cortical excitatory neurons help maintain stable activity levels when brain temperature rises by 2–3°C ...

To flourish in a world of ubiquitous technology and unprecedented burnout, we must stop grinding and start cultivating the ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

An “extraordinary” brain network discovery shows that Parkinson’s disease may not be a movement disorder after all ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the ...

A needle-thin, flexible brain implant is giving researchers a new way to interact with multiple brain regions simultaneously.

The data were collected from people about to have surgery. They show that as anaesthesia takes hold, the interplay between ...

Parkinson's disease, a progressive neurological disorder affecting more than 1 million people in the U.S. and more than 10 ...

Clumps of cells known as organoids are helping us to understand the brain, and the latest version comes equipped with ...