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

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

New research challenges the century-old practice of mapping the brain based on how tissue looks under a microscope. By analyzing electrical signals from thousands of neurons in mice, scientists ...

A new comprehensive analysis has revealed that major depressive disorder alters both the physical architecture and the ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Researchers outline a roadmap for applying transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive technique for stimulating the brain ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the ...