Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They found abundant signs of neural stem cells growing in ...

Smaller, shallow brain folds in the posteromedial cortex show greater thinning with age and Alzheimer’s disease, and their ...

Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound contained in some varieties of mushrooms, has recently been found to be promising for the treatment of some neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression, some ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

The thalamus is the initial processing unit of the brain. From here, information is relayed via the corpus callosum or white matter to the prefrontal cortex, where it is sifted and sorted and sent on ...

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Using rare brain recordings from patients, scientists found that the thalamus helps trigger visual awareness. The study ...

A new study reveals how the brain can make decisions based not only on direct experiences, but also on indirect associations ...

Our brain makes decisions based on direct associations between stimuli in our environment, but it often also does so based on ...

Justin Lehman told his wife Chelsea he was feeling "overwhelmed" when he saw what Brutus had done and took unconventional ...