In humans, the process of learning is driven by different groups of cells in the brain firing together. For instance, when the neurons associated with the process of recognizing a dog begin to fire in ...

How does the brain prepare to hear before birth? Johns Hopkins researchers discovered an internal neural "shortcut" that ...

A research team led by Professor Il-Joo Cho of Korea University College of Medicine has developed a novel brain implant ...

Can driving a car benefit your brain? Yes, if it has a manual transmission. That’s the surprising result of research at Japan ...

Recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of smart prosthetics, such as artificial limbs, joints or organs that can replace injured, damaged or amputated ...

How does our brain, which is capable of generating complex thoughts, actions and even self-reflection, grow out of essentially nothing? An experiment in tadpoles, in which an electronic implant was ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

A recent study published in Molecular Psychiatry provides evidence that experiencing abuse during different stages of ...

Here's how to know if your kid has "popcorn brain" and how to help.