The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world ...

MIT researchers found 17 new brain regions involved in language, including memory and emotion centers once thought unrelated ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

(Daisy-Daisy/iStock/Getty Images) Our understanding of the human brain is experiencing a watershed moment. The sewerage gates ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant - to take just one example - the brain mentally starts a new "chapter" of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity.

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

Learn how your brain shapes your thoughts, emotions, and decisions, and discover simple ways to better understand yourself.

Researchers have identified the brain circuitry that links deep sleep with the release of growth hormone, revealing how the ...

A team of scientists from Switzerland and France propose that animals learned to communicate at this rhythm hundreds of ...

Gamma brain waves are rhythmic electric processes in nerve cells called neurons. Nerve activity in the brain allows for communication throughout the brain to carry out functions such as memory, ...

In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic escalated, many universities shut down or reduced the capacities of research laboratories in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus. At Washington University ...