Thanks to a 'natural experiment' involving 30,000 people, researchers at Radboud university medical center were able to determine very precisely what an extra year of education does to the brain in ...

Researchers turned human brain waves into AI-generated pictures of what a person was seeing. Their work is focused on decoding brain activity to understand a person's thoughts. The experiment, ...

The effects of drugs that treat Alzheimer’s, cancer and other illnesses are often limited by the blood-brain barrier. A small study suggests a way forward. By Gina Kolata There is a problem with the ...

Seven years ago, researchers at Stanford University started an ambitious experiment: They began growing miniature, simplified versions of the human brain from stem cells inside a lab, then later ...

Neuroscientists are zeroing in on how special kinds of brain cells help us see things that aren't actually there.