A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits. New research shows that during extreme ...

An NIH-funded project leverages advanced synapse imaging to monitor real-time neuronal changes during learning, unveiling new ...

These paintings are both by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian but display strikingly different styles. The house on the left is ...

A research team at Stanford University has become the first to assemble a functioning brain circuit in a lab dish by ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

Touch heals both ways. As hands soothe tense muscles, the therapist’s brain lights up—mirror neurons fire, empathy deepens, ...

For the first time, scientists have generated a functional neural pathway for sensing pain in a dish. This could help unravel ...

Researchers identified a neural circuit defect in ASD that impairs the ability to redirect attention, crucial for social ...

People diagnosed with various mental health disorders can sometimes start engaging in intense political behavior, such as ...