Researchers have identified specific coupled patterns of brain activity and gene expression that help explain impulsive ...

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving ...

From the first buzz in the morning to the last ping at night, nonstop alerts are linked to more mental slips, stress and lost ...

The story of brain–machine interfaces begins with a bold idea: if scientists could listen to individual neurons, they might one day help people move ...

Tinnitus has long been treated as a niche ear problem, a background hum that medicine struggles to quiet. Now, a wave of ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some psychiatric disorders. By Carl Zimmer Last year, Ardem Patapoutian got a ...

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age. The results of this 10-week study back earlier ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

The brain is never completely at rest. Even without external input, it produces spontaneous neural activity that creates synchronized fluctuations across different regions - a process known as ...

Like the seeds of a forest, a few cells in embryos eventually sprout into an ecosystem of brain cells. Neurons get the most recognition for their computing power. But a host of other cells provides ...