The brain’s impressive capacity to adapt and remodel itself peaks in childhood.

A mysterious onset of schizophrenia-like symptoms in patients turned out to be cases of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis — an autoimmune disorder where antibodies storm the brain.

Watch this discussion on the discoveries and possibilities of the BRAIN Initiative.

How the brain helps us see is a captivating subject in the world of neuroscience.

Genes and the environment converge powerfully during early sensitive windows of brain development to form the neural circuits underlying behavior. Although most neuronal cell death occurs in the embryo, the paring down of connections occurs in large part during critical periods in early postnatal life.

Chronic pain can cause severe cognitive effects, but relief may come from a surprising source.

Use this guide to help your students deign a science fair project about the brain.

Optic vesicles grow into an empty pathway where the brain lays wiring that becomes the optic nerve.

Chance observations in the 1950s prompted scientists to hypothesize that low neurotransmitter levels cause depression. That thinking has unraveled.

The deadly Ebola virus could help battle the most lethal form of brain cancer: glioblastoma.