The human brain, representing the epitome of biological complexity, comprises a diverse array of cell types that orchestrate cognition, behavior, and neural homeostasis. Over the past two million ...

SEATTLE, WASH.—June 2, 2026—The Allen Institute, together with partner organizations, today launched the Brain Health accelerator: an ambitious global research initiative seeking to identify the ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

A research team has identified, for the first time in humans, and in a realistic environment, a key neurophysiological mechanism in memory formation: ripple-type brain waves—high-frequency electrical ...

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...

Each year, millions of children around the world are exposed to a host of adverse experiences early in life. These include various forms of maltreatment, growing up in unsafe neighbourhoods, and ...

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 ...

Trailblazing neuroscientists are igniting a renaissance in health care diagnostics with artificial intelligence (AI). A new University of Michigan study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering ...

Imagine a brain implant that could be placed without surgically opening a person's skull, but instead through a simple injection in the arm. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are ...