Neuroscience

Scientists from Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have found that in fruit flies, the quality and...

Using an innovative technique combining genetic analysis and mathematical modeling with some basic sleuthing, researchers have identified previously undescribed microlesions...

Researchers at The University of Western Australia have found that that brain stimulation may help retrain unhelpful cognitive habits associated...

Both positive and negative experiences influence how genetic variants affect the brain and thereby behaviour, according to a new study....

Sex differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency hospital admissions, and mortality are well documented. Males are more likely to be...

You’ve misplaced your cell phone. You start by scanning where you remember leaving it: on your bureau. You check and...

Paying Attention Makes Touch-Sensing Brain Cells Fire Rapidly and in Sync. Whether we’re paying attention to something we see can...

Researchers have long wondered if there is an upper limit to our capacity to store memories and how we manage...

New system enables pattern-recognition systems to convey what they learn to humans. Julie Shah (left) and Been Kim Photo Credit:...

The chemical messenger dopamine – otherwise known as the happiness hormone – is important not only for motivation and motor...

What would Stuart Little make of it? Mice have been created whose brains are half human. As a result, the...

Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable...

When it comes to getting out of a tricky situation, we humans have an evolutionary edge over other primates. Take,...

Development of the cerebral cortex is influenced by genetic cues and communication between neurons and progenitors. Fluorescence microscopy image of...

In recent years it has been established that copper plays an essential role in the health of the human brain....

As real as that daydream may seem, its path through your brain runs opposite reality. Aiming to discern discrete neural...

Sleep is a critical period for memory consolidation, and most people don’t get enough. Research has shown that even brief...

A new study has shown for the first time that people can be trained to “see” letters of the alphabet...