Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered that neurons located in the wrong place can still carry out their normal function — challenging long-held assumptions about how the ...

Transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive brain imaging tool, may help researchers gain knowledge about human consciousness.

Some people are immune to dementia, even if their brain is deteriorating. Cognitive reserve is the secret boost that builds ...

New research indicates that the structural organization of the human brain does not develop in a continuous, linear fashion ...

A study of nearly 10,000 adolescents funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has identified distinct differences in the brain structures of those who used substances before age 15 compared ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...

Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and ...