Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

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Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

A newly identified lymphatic drainage pathway along the middle meningeal artery reveals how the human brain clears waste. How does the brain clear away waste? This task is handled by the brain’s ...

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...

The team’s research provides compelling evidence for the brain’s influence on physiology. A deeper understanding of this mind ...

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