Neuroscience

A surprising way that diet leads risks of stroke and cognitive impairment

‘The Chicken is Ready to Eat’ has two meanings. A new study shows how your neurons decide.

A dispute at a big neuroscience meeting erupts over whether the field needs new thinking about the way clusters of neurons process information

Studies of patients with unusual neurological conditions reveal brain networks that contribute to feelings of agency

Experts increasingly think a system that could help paralyzed patients is within reach

A man in his 50s is the first of seven patients to receive the experimental therapy

The way memories are anchored in the brain plays a role, neuropsychologist Boris Suchan explains

Grunya Sukhareva characterized autism nearly two decades before Austrian doctors Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger

Prolonged social isolation can do severe, long-lasting damage to the brain 

New recordings of electrical activity in the brain help reveal the underpinnings of bad moods

A detailed picture of cell types in some areas of the mouse cortex is put to the test

Experimental techniques demonstrate how to strengthen memories when our brains are off-line