For years, researchers have debated how our brains consistently develop areas specialized for recognizing faces, objects, ...

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 ...

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Recent findings suggest that memories are stored in the body, not just the brain. Does that mean our "self" is too?

Brain organoids, three-dimensional models of the brain, are a boon to neuroscience, making it possible to study the ...

I am 71, and I recently saw my urologist for urinating a lot and not getting enough sleep. He performed a flow test and a scope, then ...

At age 70, I’ve become more and more forgetful lately and am concerned it may be an early sign of dementia. Are there any memory screening tools or services that ...

The brain response shows overall brain activity involved in processing the location and intensity of pain. This response was lower when people were exposed to virtual nature scenes compared to ...

The human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also uses basic mathematical functions called basis functions to store information about how people interact — for example ...