Scientists discovered that brain-cell axons may not be smooth tubes as textbooks have shown for more than a century, but instead naturally resemble strings of tiny pearls. Those pearl-like structures ...

One alternative has been to implant human neural stem cells into the brains of another species, where they’ll generally ...

MRI research links severe Type 2 asthma with differences in brain structure and white matter associated with inflammation ...

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 ...

Google and Janelia Research Campus released a complete fruit fly brain connectome. The open-source dataset maps over 125 million synaptic connections.

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in great part influenced by genetics. Past research has identified various genes ...

The human brain is a marvel of complexity. It contains specialised and interconnected structures controlling our thoughts, personality and behaviour. The size and shape of our brains also play a ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that individuals with bulimia nervosa have structural ...

The symptoms of schizophrenia vary greatly from person to person. A new study shows how these differences manifest themselves in the structure of the brain. The symptoms of schizophrenia vary greatly ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that individuals with bulimia nervosa have structural ...

People living with a severe form of asthma show subtle differences in the structure of their brains compared with people ...