Astrocytes, once thought to be the brain’s housekeepers, may actually be silent powerhouses of memory.

Growing up in Brazil, neuroscientist Danielle Beckman always dreamed of moving to the US for work. So, in 2017, when Beckman ...

A transdisciplinary team has created an advanced atlas of the human deep brain, revealing the details of the architecture of nuclei and connections. The results are published in ...

A pioneering scientific breakthrough has made it possible to extract proteins from preserved soft tissues, including human ...

Some people can't form mental images. Here's what scientists are learning about the condition known as aphantasia—and why ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified three types of nerve cells connected to the intestinal villi, suggesting ...

Researchers argue it is distinct from mind wandering and should be studied as a unique cognitive phenomenon linked to sleep-like brain states and clinical conditions such as ADHD and anxiety. Mind ...