Cognitive functions such as memory, learning, and information processing, traditionally associated with the brain, can also ...

An fMRI scan indirectly measures brain activity by tracking where blood flows to different regions of the brain. If a part of ...

Here’s what groundbreaking research reveals about the connection between your genes and brain structure. In a massive ...

The claustrum complex, a small yet powerful region in the brain, has intrigued scientists for years. Found across mammalian ...

But you might be thinking, why physics? Isn’t this a computer science discovery? Many in the physics community had a similar ...

Research reveals that kidney and nerve tissue cells can learn and form memories in ways similar to neurons. Our brains—and ...

Scientists discovered that memory formation isn’t limited to the brain. Non-brain cells can activate memory genes, responding ...

By scanning the brains of people while they watched movie clips, neuroscientists have created the most detailed functional ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

University of Washington-led research, published in 2023, discovered microglia in the brains of people with Alzheimer's ...

Scientists have created brain ‘organoids’ that may be showing early signs of sentience. Should that give researchers pause?

A new high-resolution neural recording method developed by Johns Hopkins APL and the School of Medicine detects neural ...