A species of tropical butterfly with unusually expanded brain structures display a fascinating mosaic pattern of neural expansion linked to a cognitive innovation.

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Four Princeton researchers won major awards from the National Institutes of Health to support their blue-sky research.

Do fish sleep? Even scientists have struggled to understand the process, but new research reveals how different species rest.

For an item that most of us use every day without much thought, mirrors can be a rich source of insight into the inner ...

Nature Milestones are editorially independent, produced with financial support from third parties. About this content. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting more ...

Loss of Tcf4 in ventral telencephalic neural progenitor cells alters the fate of oligodendrocyte precursor cells to transient intermediate astrocyte precursor cells, resulting in mislocalized ...

In contrast, love also engages the conscious brain, or neocortex, which gives us empathy, trust, abstract ideas about our relationship and the ability to love in the absence of the other person. “This ...

The Provost's Undergraduate Research Fund supports a Brandeis student's research or creative scholarship during the summer or academic semester. Academic Year Funding is available for research-related ...

Perisomatic autaptic inhibition is common in both human and mouse pvBCs of supragranular neocortex, where they efficiently control discharge of the pvBCs. We investigated GABAergic autapses in human ...