India's new brainstem atlas offers scientists an unprecedented map of one of the brain's least known regions.

Anxiety disorders affect more than 300 million people globally. Several brain regions have been linked to anxiety, but how ...

For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an enormous number of neurons. It also has an even more enormous web of connections ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that individual cells in the human ...

A protein that neurons rely on to share genetic messages with each other also packages and spreads toxic tau, the misfolded ...

Parkinson's attacks a part of the brain called the substantia nigra. (Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

A team of neurologists, bioengineers and radiologists has found that two neurons in the human brain that code for dopamine production have to work harder than similar cells in primate relatives. The ...

Anxiety disorders affect more than 300 million people globally. Several brain regions have been linked to anxiety, but how ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects millions of people worldwide every year and remains a major cause of long-term disability, cognitive decline, and neurological complications.

A brain imaging study found evidence of dopamine system injury in people with long COVID, offering a possible explanation for ...