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 ...

If depression isn’t just a chemical imbalance, what drives it? A psychiatrist unpacks the latest research, why SSRIs still ...

A University of Cincinnati study found machine learning models can aid in the automation and detection of abnormal brain ...

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

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

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