A multibillion-dollar project reveals critical moments during pregnancy, and even after birth, when the risk of neurological ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

Your baby’s brain is one of the first major organs to start developing. Learn more about fetal brain development and what ...

Scientists have uncovered a key role for the protein “Frazzled” in building and maintaining the rapid neural connections that allow fruit flies to react in milliseconds.

How does the brain take out its trash? That is the job of the brain's lymphatic drainage system, and efforts to understand ...

New research shows that mild COVID-19 alters brain structure and connectivity in key areas responsible for memory and cognition, emphasizing the lasting effects on young people’s brain health. Study: ...

Brain volume and function are altered in individuals with opioid use disorder, a new Yale study finds. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI), researchers observed the ...

"This fundamentally changes how we think about the evolution of complex nervous systems," said biologist Jack Ullrich-Lüter.

All bilateral creatures have some asymmetry, such as the human heart being located slightly to the left and the liver being ...