Neuroscientists have identified brain areas related to self-relevance, social relevance, and a value system. When a decision ...

Deep brain stimulation has been around for a few decades, but the technology has recently advanced in leaps and bounds.

A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological ...

Scientists at UC San Diego, have uncovered processes that explain how our brains record information, which could help boost new discoveries.

Music influences emotion, memory, and mental health, and serves as a tool for healing and joy. Explore the roots of its power ...

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 ...

When we “see” a combination of blue and red wavelengths, the brain bends the visual spectrum into a circle that joins blue and red at the point of purple. You might be today years old when you ...

A heartbroken mum will get a tattoo of her beloved little boy's final words to her before he lost his brave battle with incurable brain cancer ... each other's little pinky fingers and say ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a poem could do…,” how poetry changes our brains, and what you might get out ...