Scientists have uncovered a hidden layer of organization in the brain by creating the first detailed 3D map of its lipids, ...

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 ...

This week, the cover of the international journal 'Nature' features an illustration depicting the transplantation of a human brain organoid into a mouse brain. The human brain organoid at the top of ...

(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 ...

"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 ...

Adolescence represents a volatile and critical neurodevelopmental window where structural changes in the human brain directly ...