All of us have been there. We prepare to head into a meeting. Our hands get sweaty. Our minds race. Something doesn’t feel ...

Scientists have come up with all sorts of quick and dirty ways to get a sense of how fast your brain is aging. You can try simple self-assessments or take (sometimes dubious) online quizzes. But new ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animals’ brains began to ...

Researchers have built a fully implantable device that sends light-based messages directly to the brain. Mice learned to interpret these artificial patterns as meaningful signals, even without touch, ...

What enables us to sustain effort toward goals, even when the task becomes increasingly difficult? A recent study by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan revealed the underlying brain mechanism, ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that individual cells in the human brain possess significantly greater computational power than those found in ...

(Top) Evolutionary variation in the thickness of the deep cortical layer across mammalian species. Compared to mice (grey) and other mammals, rats (red) exhibit a notably expanded deep cortical layer.