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The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

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The gut-brain axis is an intricate communication network between the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system.

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The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ages—9, 32, 66 and 83—when the pattern of connections inside our brains shift.

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the developing “social brain." Here’s what we know—and when parents should be ...

A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has uncovered, for the first time, how genes linked to autism and intellectual disability may influence early brain development. Their work helps ...

These stem cells were then used to grow three-dimensional brain organoids that mimic early stages of human brain formation. After thirty days of development, the differences were striking. Organoids ...

New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network breakdown—offering a new roadmap for how our brains evolve. Colored diffusion ...