During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

The last turning point comes around age 83. The data for this final era is more limited, but the defining feature is a shift ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

The first hint of a brain developed on Earth around 600 million years ago, and now, some version of the organ can be found in nearly every animal in the world. Humans have the largest brain size ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...

Neuralink was inspired in part by Musk’s love of a sci-fi book series from the ’80s. Last week, Elon Musk’s brain chip startup Neuralink released a video of its first human patient playing chess with ...

The human brain communicates within itself and with the rest of the body mainly through electrical signals; sights, sounds and sensations are all converted into electrical pulses before our brains can ...

Neurosurgeons are typically portrayed in one of two ways in popular culture. One is as a brilliant, if arrogant, boffin. These doctors are intellectuals (it is brain surgery, after all) who have very ...