A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how ...

The human brain possesses an extraordinary ability to capture, store, and retrieve experiences that shape our identity and ...

MaryBeth Lewis was shopping for groceries at her local Walmart in suburban Buffalo when she got the word: Her surrogate had just been induced. She rushed home and packed a bag for her new twins — a ...

Most of what we do every day doesn’t require deep thought. We catch a falling cup, remember a friend’s name, or navigate ...

Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has ...

Virginia Tech researchers have shown that memory loss in aging may be reversible. Using CRISPR tools, they corrected molecular disruptions in the hippocampus and amygdala, restoring memory in older ...

Drinking alcohol can also cause both short term and long term changes to your brain. Here’s what you need to know.

A new AI-powered atlas called NextBrain allows researchers to visualize the human brain in unprecedented detail, down to hundreds of tiny subregions previously invisible on MRI scans.

Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human ...

Past psychology studies suggest that people tend to remember emotional events, such as their wedding, the birth of a child or traumatic experiences, more vividly than neutral events, such as a routine ...