Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

Scientists are finding microplastics in human brain tissue. Learn what that means for mental and neurological health, and ...

Two new research papers from the Living Brain Project at Mount Sinai present what is, by several metrics, the largest ...

Researchers at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim, together with international partners, have ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

Researchers say artificial intelligence has helped them create one of the most detailed maps of the mouse brain to date.

The existence of this lab-grown brain and other similar organoids have gotten some scientists speculating that these little ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...

A century and a half ago, Frederick Engels, in an unpublished 1876 essay titled, The Part Played by Labor in the Transition From Ape to Man (International Publishers 1950), identified the evolution of ...

Tying “fragile” memories to emotional events could help people remember them better in the future, researchers at Boston University believe. Leo Chenyang Lin was on a trip to New Hampshire two years ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...