As time goes by, our bodies change, you know, even the brain. A major change is how brain structure seems to shrink with age. Studies show that this happens at both large and small levels inside. You ...

For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known ...

Some people who’ve had the COVID-19 virus developed neurological side effects, or symptoms affecting their brain function. Find out why this happens and what conditions it could cause.

Both layers have appeared shrunken in postmortem studies of schizophrenia patients' brains. The researchers also identified a ...

Brain scans show humans instantly detect possible actions like walking or swimming from images. Visual areas encode this ...

A new study reveals that the same clinical signs of depression may stem from different brain profiles, highlighting both ...

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.

A series of unexplained falls, weakness, and excessive drowsiness in a 65-year-old man were traced to an internal brain bleed and successfully treated through minimally invasive endoscopic brain ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love and more. But where precisely does this reside in the brain? That is ...

I n 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework ...