Duke trustee and alumna Sharon Marcil and her husband, Tom Monahan, have donated $10 million to launch the Marcil-Monahan ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of California San Diego shows that the brain does not simply respond to ...

A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be ...

The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses ...

October saw several universities launch major initiatives in brain science and neurological research, often with the help of new private gifts to underwrite their efforts. Here are summaries of the ...

Explore 25 breakthroughs in neuroscience that are redefining our understanding of the brain. Discover neuroplasticity, mirror ...

When the brain is stimulated, blood flow increases. For 30 years, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), one of the ...

Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story A neuroscientist argues that brain science points to the existence of an immaterial mind or soul, pointing to cases like split-brain patients and ...

When you’re short on sleep and your focus suddenly drifts, your brain may be briefly slipping into cleanup mode. Scientists discovered that these attention lapses coincide with waves of fluid washing ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers found that frozen tissue from mouse brains could return to normal function after facing extremely cold conditions. The findings suggest that brain tissue is ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the brain developed during childhood, settled into a stable form in early ...