Scientists this week announced that they had succeeded in communicating with a man thought to be in a vegetative state, lacking all awareness, for five years following a road accident. Using a brain ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

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. A ...

During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

The brain goes through five distinct phases in life, with key turning points at ages nine, 32, 66 and 83, scientists have ...

“The results showed that individuals who were physically active performed better in these cognitive tests, demonstrating ...

Diesel exhaust particles can disturb the function of human brain immune cells, known as microglia, according to a recent ...

Kidneys from pigs provided “life-­sustaining kidney function” after being transplanted into a brain-dead patient, researchers have found. Kidneys were first transplanted from a genetically modified ...