When you’re short on sleep and your focus suddenly drifts, your brain may be briefly slipping into cleanup mode. Scientists ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

Abnormal clumps of proteins like α-synuclein, amyloid beta and tau are associated with neurodegenerative conditions like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, but a waste removal mechanism called the ...

Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry ...

People with spinal cord injuries often lose some or all their limb function. In most patients, the nerves in their limbs work ...

Understanding how the brain anticipates future states and transmits or reconstructs information remains a central challenge in neuroscience. This Research ...

We’ve turned survival responses into a black-and-white idea: pathology or wisdom. This is what we miss when we do that, and ...