New research reveals that cells outside the brain can store and process memories, challenging the view that memory is limited ...

If this presidential cycle has unified us on anything, it might be that cognitive decline is a hard thing to talk about. It ...

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...

The human brain may be fragile and mushy, but we simply couldn't live without it. Made up of a complex network of cells called neurons, the brain is the body's most complicated organ ...

Psychology helps us understand why we think, feel, and act the way we do. It uncovers interesting truths about our minds and ...

By analyzing fMRI scans of people watching films, neuroscientists have created a comprehensive functional map of the brain, ...

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When a Reddit user posted the question, “What are some disturbing facts you wish you didn’t know?” people quickly jumped in ...

Therefore, there must be zero of them.’” In recent years, research started to uncover how the human brain represents numbers, but no one examined how it handles zero. Now two independent studies, led ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers are mapping out the human brain’s ‘waste-disposal’ system for the first time. Image credit: bawanch/Getty Images. Alzheimer’s disease currently affects about ...

The development of primate brains is shaped by various inputs. However, these inputs differ between independent breeders, ...

A long-standing goal of neuroscience is to understand how molecules and cellular structures on a microscale give rise to communication between brain regions at the macroscale. A study now identifies, ...