A pair of monkeys staring at colored shapes in a Princeton lab may have brought you closer to understanding how your own mind ...

The body's control organ undergoes four major transitions during a lifetime, with 'adolescence' lasting more than two decades ...

Scientists have pinpointed five different "eras" of brain aging, from childhood to old age. The eras include a prolonged ...

Long-term memory emerges from a sequence of molecular programs that sort, stabilize, and reinforce important experiences.

Norman Doidge, citing a study by Merzenich and colleagues, found that the brain allocates neurological resources to its most ...

Scientists have created a virtual brain network that can predict the behavior of individual neurons in a living brain. The model is based on a fruit fly's visual system, and it offers scientists a way ...

A team of researchers has developed a new way to study how genes may cause autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: by growing tiny brain-like structures in the lab and tweaking their DNA. These ...

Watching someone experience pain on screen activates your own brain’s touch-processing system in a highly organized, body-specific way.

Kim Kardashian’s latest brain scan reveals reduced activity in critical brain regions after a recent aneurysm diagnosis, a ...