Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

Gray matter is made up of neuron cell bodies and dendrites and is responsible for processing and interpreting information, ...

Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have uncovered surprising geometric structures within large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. These findings offer a new perspective on how these ...

What’s so special about the human brain? What distinguishes the human brain from the brains of other animals? These intriguing questions have been approached from many directions, but here the focus ...

A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in the human brain. These findings do not immediately suggest caffeine ...