When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that ...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed videos purely from the brain activity of mice, showing what the mice were seeing, ...

MIT neuroscientists have figured out how the brain is able to focus on a single voice among a cacophony of many voices, ...

A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that repeated training reshapes specific brain circuits in ways that may be essential for building endurance. Credit: Stock Endurance improvements from exercise ...

A key to understanding the brain lies in unpacking how hundreds of interconnected brain areas process information that leads to various outputs. In order to try to understand this, researchers ...

A University of Iowa-led research team has documented in humans that physical exercise sparks an increase in brain waves ...

A research team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new noninvasive brain stimulation technique, by showing how focused ultrasound affects the human brain. Using brainwave recordings from ...

Drug addiction carries an extremely high risk of relapse, as cravings can be reignited by minor stimuli even long after one has stopped using. Previously, this phenomenon was attributed to a decline ...

Researchers found a rare, strictly binary brain feature in mice that is permanently active in females but completely dormant ...

“Do you think all mental conditions have a physical component in the brain?” someone once asked me. “Absolutely!” I answered. Then I qualified that I didn’t believe the mind and brain are the same nor ...