Neurons in the brain are wired like a social network, report researchers from Biozentrum, University of Basel. Each nerve cell has links with many others, but the strongest bonds form between the few ...

Brain map showing examples of networks and hubs. Source: Roma Siugzdaite Poorly-connected brain hubs and childhood developmental disorders often go hand in hand, according to a new state-of-the-art ...

Elon Musk's company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in people's brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone by thought alone. This is ...

Summary: Researchers tracked brain activity patterns in participants before and after they watched multiple episodes of a ...

Depression may be better predicted and understood now that University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have discovered that young adults who previously experienced the mental illness have ...

A groundbreaking new connectome maps every neural connection in an adult fruit fly’s central nervous system, creating an unprecedented view of how the brain and body work together. The findings ...

'Homo Sapiens' dominated the world not so much for its ability to reason but to socialize, according to the provocative thesis of psychologist Matthew Lieberman. However, every day we become more ...

People with similar levels of autistic traits show greater social attraction to one another, and their brains synchronize in unique ways during active conversation. A recent experiment published in ...

Patients with a neurologic injury who develop the belief that known people are imposters (Capgras syndrome) or that strangers are actually loved ones in disguise (Fregoli syndrome) may have a single ...