Scientists have created the first reference charts for the human brain, mapping its growth from infancy to 100 years old. Now, they have to grapple with difficult ethical questions about how they ...

It's not brain surgery! Well, actually, it is! Neurosurgeon Brian Kopell answers the internet's burning questions about brain surgery. What's harder, rocket science or brain surgery? Do you have to be ...

How can we test our brain health? What happens to the brain during pregnancy? And how easily does the brain heal from alcohol? On today’s episode, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, ...

In a recent viewpoint published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a group of authors evaluated emerging evidence linking nanoplastics to neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative disorders and ...

A few years ago, doctors began noticing something unusual about many patients who were later diagnosed with Parkinson disease ...

If you go to a neurologist, they can no doubt give you a barrage of tests to determine how healthy your brain is. And if you’ve got serious concerns about your memory or cognitive performance, a ...

Researchers in the Jonas group at ISTA applied this question to the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for memory ...

Nervous system disorders are among the leading causes of death and disability globally. Conditions such as paralysis and aphasia, which affect the ability to understand and produce language, can be ...

The networked-vs-list thinker question decides whether the app sticks.

Neurosurgeon and Engineer Dr. Ben Rapoport, co-founder of Precision Neuroscience, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the emerging technology of brain implants and ...

Right-brain vs. left-brain thinking is often discussed in psychology. Everybody uses both thinking types to some degree, but nearly everyone tends to have one or the other as a primary thinking style.