Mindia Wichert has taken part in plenty of brain experiments as a cognitive-neuroscience graduate student at the Humboldt University of Berlin, but none was as challenging as one he faced in 2023.

In experiments with mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report new evidence that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few brain cell types that continue to be produced in the adult ...

Experiments conducted on squid brains in the early days of neuroscience created misunderstandings about the workings of the human brain that have persisted for 70 years, according to a new study.

Alzheimer’s disease has long been framed as a problem of misfolded proteins and dying neurons, but a new wave of research is shifting attention to something far more accessible: the blood that bathes ...

Brain death is normally seen as crossing the last frontier of life, at least in a clinical setting. Until a patient has gone through brain death, we believe that some vestige of their personality must ...

The left and right sides of the brain are specialized for different functions. The left brain is more capable of language tasks. Whereas the right brain is excellent at tasks like spatial mapping.

In experiments with mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report new evidence that precursors of myelin-producing cells - one of the few brain cell types that continue to be produced in the adult ...