Every decision begins invisibly. Long before someone acts, the brain is already hard at work gathering evidence, weighing ...

“We’re doing next-level brain hacking with neurofeedback to help you get the benefits of 40 years of meditation in a matter ...

The human brain is known to store various memories for long periods of time, progressively learning from new experiences and ...

A new machine learning model shows that star-shaped brain cells may be responsible for the brain's memory capacity, and ...

A brain atlas is a 3-D map of the brain. Some brain atlases already exist, but this new suite of papers provides unprecedented resolution of the whole brain for humans and non-human primates.

Hello again, and welcome to our roundup of the most confusing photos we found on Reddit this week. Check out last week's if you missed it — and let's get right into it! Dining area with a dark ...

Half of the cells in the brain are neurons, the other half are glial cells. When scientists first discovered glia over a century ago, they thought that they simply held the neurons together. Their ...

These spindle-shaped brain cells, called von Economo neurons—named for the man who first described them—are found only in human beings, great apes and a handful of other notably gregarious ...

The Food and Drug Administration has cleared one of the stem-cell treatments for a Phase 3 study, the last hurdle before approval. Shots - Health News A brain circuit tied to emotion may lead to ...

The emerging picture of the brain, then, is less an aristocracy—with neurons looking down on their glial inferiors—than a democratic society of cells working together to produce thoughts.

Three studies published within the past week have reported dramatic results with a therapy called CAR-T delivered directly to the brain. In some cases, tumors have seemingly melted away on brain ...