One of the most significant ideas regarding the lumpy landscape of the human brain is that it is split into two sides down ...

New research reveals that neurons in the visual cortex are far more adaptable than previously thought, responding dynamically to complex stimuli during object recognition tasks.

Our brains begin to create internal representations of the world around us from the first moment we open our eyes. We ...

The communication between the brain and bodily organs is fundamental to emotion regulation and overall mental health. The ...

Scientists create models by transplanting human brain cells culled from stem cells into the brains of animals such as mice, ...

Starting in the 1970s, researchers identified a beautiful system of specialised cells in the hippocampus (the brain’s memory ...

GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

Scientists have long struggled to define brain fog—let alone pinpoint a cause for it. But research is starting to reveal multiple potential causes from inflammation to a leaky blood-brain barrier.

Six recently reported cases of benign (noncancerous) brain tumors among nurses at Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s fifth-floor maternity unit have sparked uneasiness among workers there, even as ...

In order to follow a new behavior or retain newly introduced information, the brain’s circuity undergoes change. Such modifications are orchestrated across trillions of synapses — the ...

A new systematic review has identified 17 modifiable risk factors shared by at least two of three major age-related brain disorders — stroke, dementia, and late-life depression (LLD ...

The initial exploratory work has been applied to brain disease diagnosis tasks. However, existing methods primarily rely on graph-based approaches to learn low-order correlation patterns between brain ...