Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...