What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

In an AI-saturated inbox, your brain still knows the difference between a message that was sent to you and one that was sent ...

And new science is revealing that phrase is more than a figure of speech. According to new neuroscience research, being on the same wavelength is a measurable, real phenomenon happening inside your ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

The brain begins life with high connection density, which drops sharply through childhood, then rises again slightly before declining in old age. Although the number of connections decreases with age, ...

A night without sleep produced increased markers of connections between brain cells, showing that sleep in humans may be important for restoring cellular balance in the brain, according to a study ...

Scientists from the Nencki Institute and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have revealed a key mechanism in how our brains change when we learn new information or form memories. A new ...

ME. AT MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM RESEARCHERS ARE MAPPING ONE OF THE MOST VAST AND MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPES KNOWN TO SCIENCE A WORLD OF TRILLIONS OF CONNECTIONS. THE HUMAN BRAIN. WE HAVE MAPPED OUR ENTIRE ...