Does your brain really reveal the metaphysical? Here’s what brain science can—and cannot—tell us about immortality.

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Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells—much less a brain—can behave ...

Fish oil has long been praised as brain-boosting, but new research suggests the story may be more complicated. Scientists found that in people with repeated mild head injuries, a key omega-3 fatty ...

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...

Adolescence is widely thought to be a time when the brain trims away excess neural connections, refining circuits through synaptic pruning. New research now suggests this view may be incomplete.

A newly identified trigger of brain inflammation could offer a fresh target for slowing Alzheimer’s progression.

Your brain reacts to everything you do each day. New research shows that sleep, stress, diet, and environment shape brain ...

A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain's smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and ...

Efforts to identify and evaluate next-generation therapeutics for pediatric brain tumors are easily stymied by the quality and availability of laboratory models for research. To address this issue, ...

In a recent publication, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience challenge the assumptions surrounding the ...

By David Kirton SHENZHEN, April 30 (Reuters) - An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments ...