Neuroscience

The hippocampus appears to keep track of social dynamics just as it tracks us moving physically through real spaces

A new technique is reviving the century-old study of brain lesions and revealing surprising things about neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease

A recent Scientific American blog post misconstrues and oversimplifies the research

In search of answers, a neurobiologist looks to rodents

Brain changes, visible on scans, are also associated with Alzheimer’s precursors

New findings reveal distinctive electrical properties of human neurons that may give us a boost in computing power

Scientific American assistant news editor, Tanya Lewis, and collections editor, Andrea Gawrylewski, host a new podcast that takes a deeper look at short articles from the Advances news section of the magazine.

Explaining it requires neither supernatural intervention nor any new fundamental physics

English as-a-first-language Canadian study subjects were less trusting of statements in English spoken with a foreign accent, unless the speaker sounded confident about their assertion.

New research could explain why women athletes report more severe brain injury symptoms than men

Repurposing medications could let us treat intractable illnesses

Using engineered forms of the rabies virus, neuroscientists can map brain circuits with unprecedented precision