The brain is constantly mapping the external world like a GPS, even when we don't know about it. This activity comes in the form of tiny electrical signals sent between neurons—specialized cells that ...

A new study by neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sheds light on how the brain creates internal ...

How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal ...

The brain cells that fire during learning and memory are firing in response to the concept of that character and will fire in any context in which that concept features.

At the same time, in your brain, the neurons needed to execute that swing start firing in a new way. Maybe it’s a handful of neurons that have always been there, but they’ve never before ...

A new study reveals that when we experience short-term (acute) pain, the brain has a built-in way to dial down pain signals - ...

A flair of energy in the brain in a dying patient who had “no blood pressure” or “heart rate” could be evidence of the “soul leaving the body” after death, according to an expert.

New research reveals how synaptic connections in the cerebral cortex can strengthen during sleep, offering insight into how ...

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.