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 ...

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.

With a broader perspective, the current study investigates how the billions of neurons in the cortex coordinate their firing to process information. There are 16 billion neurons in the cortex ...

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

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

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 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 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.

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.