By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers have identified how a balance of innate structure and flexible learning produces our remarkably organized ...

A new memoir, "Unshrunk," offers a scathing critique of the psychiatric drug industry, and forges a new path to healing.

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

The functioning of the brain relies on the establishment of very precise connections between neurons: synapses. A recent ...