The result supports earlier studies that used brain imaging to find evidence that the same neural circuits are involved in ...

As more states legalize recreational marijuana use, here’s what the research says about what cannabis is really doing to your ...

Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

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Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs.

The next surprise was that human organoids just kept growing. Mouse organoids were done with making neurons within nine days.

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla have created a new tool to better understand how aging ...

Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized ...

High levels of calcium are toxic to cells and contribute to loss of neurons in Alzheimer’s disease. A new JCI Insight study identifies a mechanism through which the young brain protects itself against ...

We tend to think of learning as something that happens in the mind, a mental exercise of reading, practicing, and remembering. But the truth is far more visceral. Every time you learn something new, ...

Mice make use of rapid nerve cell interactions in the brain's smell center to distinguish one odor from another, a new study shows. Both mice and humans can rapidly identify odors, researchers say, in ...