The National Academies’ report touches on ethical issues raised by new technologies such as brain organoids and human-animal chimeras, and suggests that current regulatory oversight is sufficient.

The death rate was higher among those who experienced the seizures, according to a study conducted during the early days of the pandemic.

From a loss of taste to dementia, infectious agents cause an array of neurological symptoms.

Impressions that ancient brains left in fossilized skulls reveal that the first human ancestors to migrate out of Africa had much more primitive brains than previously thought.

A study that compared several anesthetic regimens in rodents showed that only one—inhaled isoflurane—wasn’t detrimental to the activity of neurons in the hippocampus.

Meet some of the people featured in the April 2021 issue of The Scientist.

Researchers find that the animals can account for others’ behavior and circumstances in their strategies.

The largest study of its kind identifies single nucleotide polymorphisms with disparate effects on men’s and women’s susceptibility to conditions such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.