The human brain has four distinct turning points where its structure changes, according to a study published in the journal ...

Researchers have built a fully implantable device that sends light-based messages directly to the brain. Mice learned to ...

Before going to the hospital, one might fear a serious illness, but the moment they hear the words “nothing is wrong,” their ...

Norman Doidge, citing a study by Merzenich and colleagues, found that the brain allocates neurological resources to its most ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

Fear of the Dark Actually Protects Your Ancient Brain What seems like childish nonsense actually reveals sophisticated brain ...

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

A new study revealed that the brain goes through five different epochs throughout the course of a person's life. One of these ...

Though it may seem like fiction, we may one day see computational hardware constructed ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain ...

Learn more about the science behind the belief that we can “see” better while driving when we turn the music down.

A transparent chip no larger than a stick of gum is helping scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, ...