Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

A research team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new noninvasive brain stimulation technique, by showing how focused ultrasound affects the human brain. Using brainwave recordings from ...

New research suggests that psilocybin shifts the brain from a relaxed state into a highly engaged pattern of rapid electrical ...

Human brains can sense rhythm and melody from birth, showing music may be part of biology rather than something learned.

Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell growth, development, and proper connectivity. This environment is carefully ...

Those differences in wiring help explain why some people can switch tasks or recover from distractions more efficiently than others. If your white matter tracts strongly link fast sensory regions with ...

Have you ever felt calmer almost as soon as you step into the woods? Or maybe noticed your busy mind soften as you look out ...

Neuroscientists solve the "cocktail party problem," proving that neural amplification of vocal features like pitch and ...