Neuroscience

Scientists have produced the first full scale wiring map of a male adult animal’s brain and nerve cord, enabling unprecedented insights into how the...

Infants use eye contact with speakers to work out what to pay attention to and synchronise their brainwaves, helping them learn language, scientists...

Transplanting stem-cell derived dopamine progenitor cells into the brain to treat Parkinson’s disease is feasible, a landmark study has shown. Eight...

Professor Vasily Belokurov and Professor Christine Holt, both from the University of Cambridge, are among ten scientists awarded the Kavli Prize 2026...

Cambridge scientists have grown miniature circuits in the lab that mimic how the brain and spinal cord connect up, which underlies our movements. They...

Janine Roebuck, a formerly deaf opera singer who regained her hearing thanks to cochlear implants, has described as ‘life changing’ an upcoming...

Experts are warning that far from being over-diagnosed, people with ADHD are waiting too long for assessment, support and treatment.

Suicide in autistic people originates in the inequalities they face across their lives, starting in childhood, and spanning education to employment...

A simple, digital intervention that includes mentally playing Tetris can dramatically reduce intrusive memories of trauma in a month, even to the...