Neuroscience
Scientists map brain’s ‘thesaurus’ to help decode inner thoughts
What if a map of the brain could help us decode people's inner thoughts? Scientists at the University of California,...
Study reveals a basis for attention deficits
More than 3 million Americans suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a condition that usually emerges in childhood and...
Learning more about the brain
The question is straightforward enough: How does the brain learn to make sense of the visual world? The full answer...
How neurons lose their connections
Strengthening and weakening the connections between neurons, known as synapses, is vital to the brain’s development and everyday function. One...
Stimulus plan?
It may sound unusual, but it’s true: In recent years a growing number of people have been hooking their heads...
Study finds altered brain chemistry in people with autism
MIT and Harvard University neuroscientists have found a link between a behavioral symptom of autism and reduced activity of a...
Music in the brain
Scientists have long wondered if the human brain contains neural mechanisms specific to music perception. Now, for the first time,...
How one gene contributes to two diseases
Although it is known that psychiatric disorders have a strong genetic component, untangling the web of genes contributing to each...
Protein imaging reveals detailed brain architecture
MIT chemical engineers and neuroscientists have developed a new way to classify neurons by labeling and imaging the proteins found...
Singing in the brain
Male zebra finches, small songbirds native to central Australia, learn their songs by copying what they hear from their fathers....
How the brain processes emotions
Some mental illnesses may stem, in part, from the brain’s inability to correctly assign emotional associations to events. For example,...
Cell density remains constant as brain shrinks with age
New, ultra-high-field magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the brain by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago provide the...
Scientists find genetic basis of brain networks seen in imaging studies
A new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine found that synchronized physiological interactions between remote brain...
Brain learning simulated via electronic replica memory
New study: New way of controlling electronic systems endowed with a memory can provide insights into the way associative memories...