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 ...

The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

Career decisions are about more than logistics; they’re also about meaning, satisfaction, and identity. And because long-term ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are observed in no other animal species. For centuries, scientists have been trying ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...