Your brain begins as a single cell. When all is said and done, it will house an incredibly complex and powerful network of some 170 billion cells. How does it organize itself along the way? Cold ...

Neuroscientists propose a new theory of brain development where cells organize based on lineage rather than long-range signals.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory postdoc Stan Kerstjens and colleagues have devised a new theory for how the brain organizes ...

The dominant theory in neuroscience has been that the sensory processing circuits in our brain are finalized in early ...

Forget everything you knew about practice making perfect. New research shows your brain is actually wired to learn faster ...

For decades, the idea that the human brain might naturally produce the psychedelic compound DMT has attracted considerable attention. It has been speculated that DMT could function as a natural ...

A few minutes beside trees or water can shift the brain into a calmer state. That change is not just a feeling.

In what may well come to be seen as epoch-marking moment, the USA’s National Institute of Mental Health has effectively ditched DSM and its symptom-based approach. As the Director says in his blog, ...