Scientists have been developing and refining methods to accurately measure the age and health of our brains, without cutting ...

What happens to the brain as people transition from alive to ... had near-death experiences who said they saw their entire life history play out in a rapid manifestation of autobiographical ...

A new study from Lund University suggests that traumatic brain injury (TBI) may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease by altering ...

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...

If you've ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a new study reveals the reason: Our brains physically link memories that occur close ...

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.

By doing so, he discovered that weak electric shocks, when applied to areas at the back of the brain, caused the patients' eyes to move. Later, around 1870, Hitzig teamed up with another doctor ...

If you've ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a new study reveals the reason: Our brains physically link memories that occur close ...

Michael Mosley embarks on three journeys to understand science's last great frontier - the human mind - as he traces the history of the attempts to understand and manipulate the brain.