Scientists have uncovered a key brain signal that helps us break old habits and adapt when circumstances suddenly change. By ...

It's one of nature's greatest ironies: the human brain lacks the ability to grasp its own complexity. Indeed, the brain is complicated. The three-pound organ housed in our heads consists of roughly 86 ...

Arguably the most complex organ in the body, the brain is an elegant mess of cells, chemicals and electrical impulses that orchestrates our thoughts, behaviors and unconscious bodily functions. This ...

Children aged 8–15 have collaborated with leading neuroscientists and winners of The Brain Prize to review articles explaining breakthrough brain research in a new Frontiers for Young Minds collection ...

Neuroscience research works to understand which subregions of the brain are utilized during the dance creative process.

Scientists are one step closer to understanding the 170 billion brain cells that allow us to walk, talk, and think. A newly published atlas offers the most detailed maps yet of the location, structure ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...