The scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively builds dense new clusters of synapses in specific parts of neurons.

Researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are working on a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...

Professor Paul Colombo has studied music-based mentoring, memory, and the benefits of music training over the course of his ...

Researchers are uncovering how disrupted glutamatergic synapses drive diverse forms of intellectual disability, revealing new ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

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

A neuroscientist survey shows that 40 percent think it might be possible to preserve a human brain, potentially well enough ...

Researchers identify two key proteins that allow chandelier cells to connect with excitatory neurons. This "handshake" regulates brain signals and, when disrupted, may lead to epilepsy or autism.

New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, ...