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The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...
For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.
Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...
The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...
Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...
Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...
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A newly identified lymphatic drainage pathway along the middle meningeal artery reveals how the human brain clears waste. How does the brain clear away waste? This task is handled by the brain’s ...
Your brain is wrinkled like a walnut, and those wrinkles aren't just for show. Each fold increases the amount of surface area ...