The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

What happens to the human brain when the force of gravity is removed from the equation? New research is beginning to reveal ...

Anthony Leonardo is a neuroscientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s research facility who has created an environment to track dragonflies’ neuron transmissions. This research will enable him to ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

To navigate something as complex and dynamic as the brain, a map would help. Researchers have learned an enormous amount about how we think, what drives our behaviors, and why we feel the way we do ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

In a July 2018 MIT News article, “ Charting the Cerebellum, ” first author Xavier Guell of MIT's McGovern Institute of Brain Research, describes his team’s state-of-the-art mapping of motor and ...