Once in the hippocampus, memories and learning can be transmitted to different parts of the brain and retrieved whenever ...

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

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 ...

For the first time, a lab-grown brain-computer system has demonstrated that human neurons living and evolving in an ...

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.

Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the ...

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 ...

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

New research uncovers why acute pain fades but chronic pain lingers—revealing how the brain's pain-regulating system breaks down and pointing to new treatment possibilities.

Why does a paper cut hurt for a moment, but a bad knee can ache for years? A study suggests the answer lies deep in the ...