A Nature Neuroscience commentary highlights new evidence that genetic variants within Alu transposable elements help shape ...

Was the brain a single mechanism from the beginning?We usually think of the brain as a single organ.This is because the brain, with its various functions such as thinking, remembering, speaking, ...

Van Wedeen strokes his half-gray beard and leans toward his computer screen, scrolling through a cascade of files. We’re sitting in a windowless library, surrounded by speckled boxes of old letters, ...

Revealing the relationship between resting-state human brain structure and function is a central question for understanding brain cognition and neuropsychiatric disorders, while the problem still ...

Human brain is actually two separate organs, scientists find - The Stanford University breakthrough stands to open new doors for research into fatal neurodegenerative diseases ...

"This is the first study to directly link senescence-related molecular networks in living human brain tissue to measurable differences in brain structure within the same individuals," said Noam ...

The cerebral cortex, the outermost layer of the brain, is the central driver of various human capabilities, including decision-making, perception, language and memory. Understanding how the morphology ...

NEW YORK and BOSTON, Feb. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A groundbreaking study published today in the journal CELL and led by researchers from the Living Brain Project at the Icahn School of Medicine ...

(Valerii Stoika/Canva) You read a sentence, remember a familiar face, then turn to another thought. Behind all of that activity, your brain also has a housekeeping problem: what to do with proteins ...