Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

Picture a mammal that can deliberately shut down most of its brain functions for most of the year, then wake up in the spring ...

Scientists have mapped the sensory neurons in bone for the first time, and identified their dual role in reporting and ...

Menopause is linked to a loss of grey matter in regions involved with memory and emotion, study suggests.

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

Alzheimer's disease has long been thought to be irreversible, but new research using a mouse model offers hope.

One of the most striking outcomes of the surface-minimization framework is its ability to explain structural features that ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown cluster of brain cells that may help explain differences in social behavior ...

Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A study published in ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory ...