A new study finds that looking at something and imagining it triggers the same exact process in the brain. It's also very similar to the process artificial intelligence uses to create an image.

For that reason, after his death in 1955, pathologist Thomas Harvey removed and preserved his brain for scientific study. That decision later allowed researchers around the world to investigate how ...

(Maciej Frolow/Stone/Getty Images) The origins of Alzheimer's remain contentious, but a new study suggests the disease may ...

The approaches seem disparate, which is why most brain scientists choose individual strategies. But Silver believes the ...

Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...

Memory failures often feel like personal lapses, but new research suggests the problem may be rooted in hidden architecture inside the brain’s core learning hub. Scientists have uncovered previously ...

Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremor and trouble walking. It can also affect sleep, smell, digestion and even thinking. That may be because the disease disrupts communication in a brain ...

A recent study has found that the human brain processes the odds of winning far differently than we thought, explaining why ...

While others are just "chatting," your brain is doing something else. It's scanning. Micro-expressions that flash across ...