The 2026 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists – Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and ...

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Michigan has passed a law requiring federal funds for foster children to be preserved for their future needs, like education or job training ...

Want to Be More Creative and Avoid Burnout? Make Time for Play When we were kids, play was how we learned everything—how to ...

Tuberous sclerosis complex, a leading genetic cause of early-onset epilepsy, is typically resistant to drugs, requiring ...

Two separate types of progenitor cells give rise to the front and back of the organ, according to a new study. The findings can help researchers study human diseases that affect the hindbrain, since i ...

Our brain may be a hybrid of two ancient nervous systems that were packaged together hundreds of millions of years ago. This is based on the finding that the front and back brain regions in people and ...

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved ...

The biggest barrier to understanding the human brain is the human around it. Scientists can't exactly tinker around in someone's gray matter while that someone is still using it. Which means many ...

Side view of a xenocortical mouse brain showing nerve fibers extending from the human graft (colored with green and red fluorescent proteins) through the mouse brain (blue). [S. Pasca lab / Stanford ...

Scientists have grown human brain tissue to fill most of a mouse’s cortex, creating a new model for studying brain disease and neural circuits.

Scientists are exploring new ways to regain control of overactive nervous systems including humming, tapping on the skin and cold-water immersion.