Where your body stores fat may matter just as much as how much you carry—especially for your brain. Using advanced MRI scans and data from nearly 26,000 people, researchers identified two surprising ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...

What you eat isn’t just fuel,” says Amy Shapiro, RD. “It truly influences how your brain functions, ages, and feels.” ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

An individual may become completely paralyzed because of any number of accidents that interfere with the functioning of the ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

Machine learning decodes brain signals for paralysis recovery in just one second using sensors placed on scalp not inside ...

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

Research shows that delaying important tasks is often driven by how the brain processes stress and threat—not by poor time ...