A map of estimated nerve-fibre pathways in the brain of a mouse in which human brain cells had ‘survived, thrived and grew’ - Reuters/Sergiu Pasca Lab/Stanford University Human brain tissue has been ...

The idea of a mouse with a half-human brain might sound like something created in Dr Frankenstein's lab. But it has become a reality in California, where scientists from Stanford University have ...

Scientists have bioengineered mice whose brains contain working human cells, but they stress that they're not "mice that think like humans." In a study published in Nature, Stanford University ...

Understanding mental health disorders like schizophrenia and depression better, so we can treat patients suffering from these disorders better, is one of the most important aims of psychological ...

The human brain is often described as one of the most complex structures in biology, and much of its power comes from how it's organized. Its outer layer, the cerebral cortex, is not one uniform sheet ...