A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

JIMMY TOMLIN, The High Point Enterprise, N.C. HIGH POINT — When you hear Sam Hawley’s story — his inspiring journey from a young man facing addictions to a young man fighting a brain tumor to a young ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. 'Almost biblical' quest for redemption: Henry Marsh can't let go of 'the patients he feels he ...

One of the most surprising findings is that the period the scientists refer to as “adolescence” starts around the age of nine ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered a surprising truth about the speed of human thought: our brains process ideas at a rate of just 10 bits per second. Compared to the ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf's lab used organoids to make fundamental discoveries about human ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels—an advance that could usher in a new era of research into ...

"If I needed brain surgery, I think I would want Henry Marsh to come out of retirement to do it," said Carol Midgley in The Times. "What an empath, and what a glorious piece of television." The ...