It had been a good night—good food, good people, the kind of gathering I'd looked forward to all week. I walked in the door, ...

Sleep helps the brain to cleanse itself—and now this process can be measured in humans entirely noninvasively. Researchers at ...

The brain's 'garbage disposal' system falters with age, a new study finds, with long-lived neurons offloading clumpy, old proteins onto other brain cells. Many of those proteins are involved in brain ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have demonstrated, for the first time, that a key emotional center deep in the human ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...

What happens in the brain when someone witnesses toxic behavior in the workplace? Researchers at Rutgers Business School, in ...

Betty faces a seemingly simple choice between an apple and a donut. But as we'll soon discover, the brain's decision-making process is far from straightforward. Betty is standing before the healthy ...

“How much information can the brain process?” is a question that has fascinated neuroscientists, computer scientists and philosophers for decades. The brain is an extraordinarily complex organ, ...

Most people want autism breakthroughs—but few know the crucial role brain donation plays in making them happen. Autism ...

Humankind stands at an evolutionary crossroads, and the key to our survival lies in awakening a latent potential within the ...