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, ...

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

Ultra-high-field fMRI reveals that the human superior colliculus shows layer-specific activity not only in response to visual and somatosensory stimuli but also in anticipation of them, confirming ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

(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 ...