A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

New research suggests that the most ancient evolutionary parts of the brain could be contributing to consciousness.

Are the brains of left-handers different than those of right-handers? A recent study investigated this question from a new ...

Recent insights into brain functioning challenge the long-standing belief that brain wiring is the primary determinant of intelligence and behavior. It appears that it’s not just about how the brain ...

Every emotion has a physical side, but one organ has been curiously overlooked in brain-body research. Now, scientists are turning their attention to the stomach—and discovering signals that may ...

Is human intelligence really computational intelligence? Not merely a metaphor, but one and the same. A talk at Harvard's ...

This week, researchers identified a key driver of pancreatic cancer spread. Oral bacteria were linked to Parkinson's disease ...

In a groundbreaking study from 1961, Albert Bandura demonstrated that we learn by watching what others do. New evidence links ...

Redefining Research: This study shows that a human-based brain organoid model can mimic key brain functions such as ...

This report calls on those who oversee the funding and implementation of PTSD research to reject animal-based research on ...

UCLA scientists, medical professors and graduate students are accustomed to presenting their research — into cancer, stroke, brain injury, nerve regeneration — at conferences of their peers with the ...