Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things ...

A French civil servant functioned normally with 90 percent of his brain missing. How is this possible? Research reveals ...

"The combined amount of evidence implicates sleep in a bi-directional relationship with dementia, meaning that poor sleep earlier in life may contribute to increased risk of dementia, but also early ...

Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your brain, specialized networks act like a compass, constantly recalibrating so ...

A new study in Science now promises to kick this dust up all over again: it has reported evidence of neural progenitor cells ...

The brain has its own waste disposal system – known as the glymphatic system – that’s thought to be more active when we sleep ...

New stem cell–based brain models from UCLA scientists show how a single epilepsy gene variant affects different brain regions ...

For decades, scientists have worked to peer deeper into the brain. They have wanted to see not just surface activity in the ...

Women’s brains are just as complex as men’s, yet for years, science largely ignored them. For decades, scientific and... The post Her brain, her research: understanding gender in neuroscience appeared ...

A new study points to daily alcohol use creating changes in small blood vessels that help feed and clean brain tissue ...

Researchers found that humans and AI share a similar interplay between two learning systems: flexible, quick in-context learning and gradual incremental learning.