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

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

The links between nerve cells, called synapses, allow us to learn and adapt, and hold clues to conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, and more.

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

Take your students on a tour of these beautiful and colorful mouse brains.

The cerebellum helps coordinate your most intricate movements.

Americans 65 and older undergo nearly 20 million surgeries each year, which frequently improve and sometimes save their lives. But the brain doesn’t always fare so well.

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

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.