We have only just started to understand how our brains clean themselves, but columnist Helen Thomson finds promising evidence ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are still fairly common and an estimated 40 million people worldwide are ...

A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence ...

The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you ...

New research tracks how THC exposure during pregnancy disrupts fetal brain development and leads to sustained structural ...

A Cedars-Sinai study has identified a previously unknown role for astrocyte cells in how the brain responds to damage and disease. Cedars-Sinai researchers have identified a biological repair process ...

The claim that the brain, and particularly the frontal lobe, finishes developing at 25 is far less solid than social media ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

Your nose’s superpower is thanks to a “superhighway” that leads directly into your brain. The olfactory system runs straight to the hippocampus, or your memory hub, whereas other sensory systems have ...

The brain shows a capacity to recover from traumatic injury, which somewhat contradicts the widely accepted idea that neurons ...

Following brain injury, mice show sex differences in how their surviving cells compensate to promote recovery.