What a brainless slime mold can teach us about decision-making, intellectual curiosity, and thriving in an uncertain world.

If you've ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a new study reveals the reason: Our brains physically link memories that occur close ...

A new kind of memristor mimics how the brain learns by combining analog and digital behavior, offering a promising solution ...

A team of researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the French National Centre for Scientific ...

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

In research inspired by the principles of quantum mechanics, researchers from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

The search continues. Why are we struggling to find the magic bullet for Alzheimer’s disease? Brain complexity is a major factor. The brain is the most complex structure in the human body and ...

TV star Davina McCall vows to be friends for life with the surgeon who operated on her brain and saved her life last year. The 57-year-old TV star underwent the complex five-hour operation in ...

underlying brain developmental disorders is historically challenging due to limitations in accessing human brain and the complexity of the central nervous system (CNS). Studies on animal models, ...

Objective To better concurrently address emotional and neuropsychological symptoms common in veterans with comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and history of traumatic brain injury (TBI), ...

Researchers have now found that certain stretches of our chromosomes changed more rapidly over time than seen during typical evolution, which may have influenced how our brain’s nerve cells form ...