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 ...

Decades of research have shown that, to make decisions, our brains gradually gather evidence for each option over time.

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 ...

All of this motion has subtle but dramatic effects on the sleeping brain that the researchers are only beginning to ...

A new study suggests that low doses of the psychedelic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD, can enhance how ...

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

Scientists have long known that when sounds are faint or objects are seen through fog in the distance, repetition of these weak or ambiguous sensory “inputs” can result in different perceptions inside ...

The human brain is a marvel of nature, a labyrinth of neurons and synapses that dictates every aspect of our behavior, thoughts, and feelings. Yet, despite its critical role in our lives, it remains ...

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 ...

For her new research on the brain’s plumbing system, neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard had to hone many techniques. Among them ...

In these animal models, pups exposed to rough care process maternal cues aberrantly. Instead of the mother’s presence calming the pup’s fear circuitry, it can increase activity in areas of the brain ...

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