The human brain builds mental representations of the world based on the signals and information detected via the human senses ...

Neurons are nerve cells; there are about 100 billion neurons in the brain of an adult, “and they’re not all the same,” says Tracy. “There are all sorts of neurons that do different things.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have grown a first-of-its-kind organoid mimicking an entire human brain, complete with ...

Mimicking multiple parts of the brain, this miniature mind could help scientists investigate a variety of neuropsychiatric ...

In my many interactions with this student, I clearly failed to articulate a central tenet of love and the brain: Different brain regions are involved in different aspects of love and in the ...

Johns Hopkins scientists have created a small lab-grown human brain model with working brain cells and blood vessels. This breakthrough may help study diseases like autism and schizophrenia, and test ...

Each type activates different parts of the brain depending on the kind of human experience. Researchers explain which type of love was felt the strongest and what this means about human connection.

There’s just one rather technical catch: prior to the study, surgeons first needed to cut a small window into the patient’s ...

In their research [1], Rinne and colleagues set out to understand how different types of love might activate the brain. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), they observed the brain ...