Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

A neuroscientist survey shows that 40 percent think it might be possible to preserve a human brain, potentially well enough ...

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever suggested. A wave of new research is revealing hidden layers in the brain’s ...

A landmark international study that pooled brain scans and memory tests from thousands of adults has shed new light on how ...

For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...

With aging comes change; wrinkles, gray hair, and height differences are all a part of the mix. But it’s not just the cosmetic transformations that people fear. According to a study from the Global ...

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...

A new study found that fixing energy balance in the brain reversed symptoms of advanced Alzheimer’s in mice.  Researchers used a drug (P7C3-A20) to ...

The human brain draws its conclusions and perceives the world around it not only on the basis of the data it receives, but ...

In a new study published in Neuron titled, “Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms,” researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of ...