A team of Indiana University neuroscientists has built a new model of human brain networks that sheds light on how the brain functions. The model offers a new tool for exploring individual ...

Our brains know we’ll change our minds before we do. Understanding how might help us learn to make better decisions.

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell ...

The brain has its own waste disposal system—known as the glymphatic system—that's thought to be more active when we sleep.

Early on, Nedergaard and Iliff, a glial cell biologist and a vascular physiologist, respectively, hypothesized that waste ...

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized.

Encoding human experience: Study reveals how brain cells compute the flow of time Researchers say findings could have implications for improving memory, cognitive functions and artificial ...

The vagus nerve functions as a communication channel that links the brain to the gut system. The brain receives chemical ...

The Mouse Brain Atlas is a multi-year, multi-institutional effort to parse the genomics underlying form and function of the mouse brain, which serves as a model for related human research.