Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that ...

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has ...

Drinking alcohol can also cause both short term and long term changes to your brain. Here’s what you need to know.

Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent reactivations, ...

A collaboration between SISSA's Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are ...

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

Kidney cells can make memories too. At least, in a molecular sense. Neurons have historically been the cell most associated with memory. But far outside the brain, kidney cells can also store ...

In “How to Change a Memory,” neuroscientist Steve Ramirez embarks on a project to find and reactivate memories in the brains ...

A recent brain-scan study sheds light on how people's brains divide continuous experiences into meaningful segments, like scenes in a movie. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

After 150 years of mystery, neuroscience has finally cracked the code on how language works in the brain—and the answer is surprisingly elegant.