In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

Columbia scientists mapped brain mitochondria for the first time, revealing how energy shapes memory, mood, and mental health ...

Other studies point to sex-based differences in human brain structure that may be present from birth, and still other, lab-based research in animals points to sex-based differences in how brain ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

The skull evolved for protection against blunt force. Modern acceleration and rotational forces expose the brain to new injury risks. We must rethink brain protection strategies.

Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

New research published in Biology of Sex Differences has found that sex differences in brain structure are already present at birth and remain relatively stable during early postnatal development.

Let us start with the brain. The brain is a physical organ, (like heart and liver), and is situated within the skull, that ...

3D structures that mimic the human brain To get an organoid, you start, for instance, with skin cells from a person. These cells are then reprogrammed or 'set back to factory setting' to get ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

More information: Yumnah T. Khan et al, Sex Differences in Human Brain Structure at Birth, Biology of Sex Differences (2024).

Being bilingual or multilingual has been proven to have countless beneficial impacts on the brains of those who speak more ...