Unfinished tasks occupy your brain differently than completed ones. Discover why "done" matters more than "perfect"—and how ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been diagnosed from the outside in, through behavior, mood, and memory ...

Memories and learning processes are based on changes in the brain's neuronal connections and, as a result, in signal transmission between neurons.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are still fairly common and an estimated 40 million people worldwide are ...

For more than a century, neuroscience textbooks have treated damaged neurons in the adult central nervous system as a dead end, especially in the delicate circuitry that carries visual information ...

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers ...

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

Language is more strongly controlled by the left half of the brain, while other functions are more strongly controlled by the ...

We have only just started to understand how our brains clean themselves, but columnist Helen Thomson finds promising evidence ...

The New Year is just around the corner, and like every year, we make many resolutions like losing weight, advancing in career ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

The field of cognitive neuroscience has increasingly turned its attention to the detrimental effects of hypoxia on brain and cognitive functions. While significant progress has been made in ...