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'When you improve nutrition, you reduce violence': Psychologist Kimberley Wilson on working in Europe's largest women's prison
By Sascha Pare published
Kimberley Wilson has worked in prisons and with patients from all walks of life. Her years of providing therapy suggest improved nutrition could be key to mental health and brain function.

In a 1st, scientist grow mini brains with functional blood-brain barriers
By Nicoletta Lanese published
New "assembloids" grown from stem cells offer a tiny, working model of the blood-brain barrier.

The enigmatic 'brain microbiome' could play a role in neurological disease
By Janosch Heller published
Some research suggests the brain has its own microbiome, but scientists don't know much about it.

New 3D map charted with Google AI reveals 'mysterious but beautiful' slice of human brain
By Sneha Khedkar published
Harvard and Google researchers have collaborated to map a tiny fragment of an adult human brain in unprecedented detail.

Optical illusion reveals key brain rule that governs consciousness
By Emily Cooke published
A study of mice starts to unravel how the brain gets tricked by this kind of optical illusion, and it gives clues about how visual perception works.

Super-detailed map of brain cells that keep us awake could improve our understanding of consciousness
By Nicoletta Lanese published
A new map of a brain network that sustains wakefulness in humans could help improve our understanding of consciousness.

'Frankenstein' mice with brain cells from rats raised in the lab
By Stephanie Pappas published
In recent experiments, rat brain cells filled in for lost neurons in mouse brains, raising new possibilities for growing donor tissues across species.

Why do people hear their names being called in the woods?
By Ben Turner published
Auditory pareidolia is a phenomenon in which people can hear familiar sounds from seemingly static background noise.
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