As your brain shifts into a slower, calmer wave state, much like the dreamy place between sleep and wakefulness, real transformation becomes possible, some studies suggest.

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer ...

Findings could help illuminate role of brain region in cognitive functions, such as memory integration and abstract thinking: paper Chinese and French scientists have developed an extremely detailed ...

A new brain imaging study published in the journal Neuroscience00304-5/fulltext) has found that authoritarian attitudes on both the political left and right are linked to specific structural ...

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for ...