A recent study has found that the human brain processes the odds of winning far differently than we thought, explaining why ...

The brain's 'garbage disposal' system falters with age, a new study finds, with long-lived neurons offloading clumpy, old proteins onto other brain cells. Many of those proteins are involved in brain ...

All of this motion has subtle but dramatic effects on the sleeping brain that the researchers are only beginning to ...

Sleep helps the brain to cleanse itself—and now this process can be measured in humans entirely noninvasively. Researchers at ...

Imagine you're in line at your favorite bakery, deciding whether to have a doughnut or a tart. You weigh them up, the ...

Scientists have created a super-map of the brain containing 30 million cells to trace the prenatal origins of diseases.

Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

A new survey reveals a striking disconnect in how Americans think about autism research. While nearly everyone agrees that ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

How does human echolocation work? Researcher found that the brain accumulates information across multiple mouth clicks to ...

AS we age, brain cells face increasing challenges from inflammation, oxidative stress, reduced blood flow, and the buildup of ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of ...