The Amazing Human Brain

The connections between different regions of the brain responsible for language processing depend on which language you grew up with.

Brain organoids, or minibrains, contain human tissues and have potential uses in basic research, drug development and computer science.

After being diagnosed with aphasia in 2022, Bruce Willis has now been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.

Scientists transplanted human brain organoids into rats to repair injuries to their visual processing systems.

A new study links obesity to patterns of brain tissue loss that overlap with those seen in Alzheimer's disease.

Mental fuzziness can be frustrating and can be caused by lack of sleep or even an underlying illness.

Researchers discovered that six psychiatric disorders seemed linked to the same underlying brain wiring.

A new brain-computer-interface device doesn't require open-brain surgery to implant.

"De novo" genes may have paved the way for humans' big brains.

Scientists discovered a "protective shield" in the brain.

An implanted device allows a man to translate his brain signals into written words.

Using fMRI, scientists decoded what people were hearing and thinking.

Researchers taught a synthetic neuron network to play a version of the retro arcade game "Pong" by integrating the brain cells into an electrode array controlled by a computer program.

Brain scans revealed a "map" of this universal language network.

A new optical illusion, the "expanding hole," tricks 86% of people into seeing a growing dark region in the center of the stationary image.

Scientists used brain scans to unlock the secrets of working memory.

We all have that friend who "knows everything."

The digestive power of this amoeba is the stuff of nightmares when it plays out in a human brain.