In the brain, information travels among distributed networks, groups of interconnected regions that work together and contribute to specific behaviors, feelings or thoughts. To study how information ...

Since then his scripts have garnered over 200 festival selections, nominations, and wins all over the globe (including the ...

Researchers looked at changes in the volume of gray matter, which is made mostly of nerve cell bodies and located in the brain's wrinkly outer layer. Fiordaliso via Getty Images The brain goes through ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this process possible. Among the discoveries is PEDS1, a gene now linked to a ...

Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all. He argues that materialism has yet to solve this “hard ...

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Using their new knowledge, the researchers became the first to successfully coax human stem cells into becoming hindbrain motor nerve cells. Tryfonov / Adobe Stock The brain is an incredible organ, ...

More than 100 people say they suffered brain injuries from a Six Flags roller coaster in the last two years alone, following a CNN investigation last month that linked the world-famous ride to ...

Researchers are still investigating what alcohol does to the brain, and what (if any) amount is safe. By Dana G. Smith In 2003, a study published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical ...

For centuries, neuroscientists have operated under a foundational assumption: The human brain is a single, contiguous organ. Anatomists have long believed that as an embryo develops, a single ...

Have you ever wondered what happens to your brain while you sleep? Could it be that your brain turns off just as the rest of your body shuts down for the night? For quite some time, scientists and ...