When you close your eyes and picture a familiar face, your brain does not conjure the image from scratch. According to ...

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain—they talk to it. In a new ...

Creative endeavors, like making art, writing music, or penning a poem, require the recall of memories to fuel imagination. Many other human behaviors ...

Pediatricians and parents — and, really, anyone who works with children — have long known that a child’s social needs evolve with age. Yale researchers have now discovered the neurological signaling ...

Inhibitory "stop" neurons are actually responsible for driving the rhythmic limb movements of fruit flies through a unique ...

The brain is the body's command center, and neurons are the workhorses that carry out its commands. They transmit signals ...

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Different parts of the brain perform a variety of functions, all of ...

One of the characteristics of depression is a tendency to perceive sensory stimuli and everyday situations in an excessively negative way. But the mechanisms underpinning this 'negativity bias,' which ...