Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

The teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...