Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things ...

Exploring the relationship between cancer cells and nerve cells, which can signal tumors to grow, could unearth ways to slow disease.

The brain divides vision between its two hemispheres—what's on your left is processed by your right hemisphere and vice versa ...

New research in amateur football and soccer players has identified some potential early warning signs of C.T.E.

Seeing and imagining use similar brain machinery. New research reveals the brain circuit that identifies what is real, which ...

That the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea that’s gaining traction - and is ...

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin reveal that nanoplastics disrupt brain cell energy metabolism, potentially driving ...

In Alzheimer’s disease, Hameroff says, scientists don’t know whether the microtubules disintegrate and release the tau or whether the tau falls off because of a malfunction that weakens the bond. The ...

Knight Initiative researchers are investigating the detailed processes behind how the brain learns to control movement. Their ...

The mind isn’t the brain. It’s what the brain does. It runs on emotion, filters, and loops. Understand it, and you can begin ...

The gift, from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang, will bring together scientists who study the gut, sleep, immunity, pain, and more ...

An international research team has shown that lung cancer cells can form functional synapses with neurons, effectively ...