For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Rare incidents where ventilator or heavily sedated patients react during emergencies are rooted in well-documented survival ...