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

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

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are closely related to chimps, the slight differences in ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom. Brain organoids, which ...

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

Better ways to measure cognitive exhaustion could point to treatments for long COVID and other debilitating disorders.

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...

Scientists have long struggled to define brain fog—let alone pinpoint a cause for it. But research is starting to reveal multiple potential causes from inflammation to a leaky blood-brain barrier.