What if we could peer into the brain and watch how it organizes information as we act, perceive, or make decisions? A new ...

Synaptic plasticity — the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning — is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington's disease, with a direct ...

My grandmother stayed sharp until she passed away at eighty-six. I still have her handwritten letters, filled with thoughtful ...

The human brain is a marvel, with intricate pathways connecting its various regions - a superhighway of learning. These neural pathways are the foundation of our thoughts, actions and responses to the ...

Emerging research is looking at the impact AI use has on our brains and whether it is just making us lazy or rewiring our neural pathways. Here's what the studies say.

Two-photon imaging and ocular dominance mapping. A. Optical windows for imaging of two macaques. Green crosses indicate the regions for viral vector injections, and yell ...

Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of ...

New research shows that creative activities may slow the brain’s aging process. Here is how creativity strengthens cognitive ...

A new study in Neuron reveals that the brain’s executive center sends highly specialized, context-dependent instructions to ...

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

Scientists have uncovered a stepwise system that guides how the brain sorts and stabilizes lasting memories. By tracking brain activity during virtual reality learning tasks, researchers identified ...