A research team has identified genetic factors that influence the shape of subcortical brain regions—far beyond volume ...

Deep-brain imaging in awake mice reveals how light resets the circadian clock by activating complex SCN neuron networks.

Researchers have measured the brain’s faint glow for the first time, hinting at a potential role of “biophotons” in cognition ...

Thomas Mulligan explains how the brain compensates for missing visual information by filling in gaps. Wife of Minnesota politician shielded daughter from bullets, says relative ...

American psychologist Joseph Jastrow made this illusion in 1899 – to make a point about how the brain perceives what is in ...

For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known ...

Researchers at the University of Glasgow just achieved what many thought impossible: transmitting light completely through an adult human head from one temple to the other.

"The scale at which we analyzed the amyloid peptides was unprecedented," said Ben Lehner of the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

This interpretation is intentionally vague, as people can use all kinds of language to self-report a mind blank. Examples ...

Your brain does not read words letter by letter, experts told Live Science. Instead, it looks for patterns, considers context then makes predictions. So even if a word is misspelled or missing its ...

The cranial nerves are a set of twelve pairs of nerves that travel to and from the brain. Each has a different function. For example, the olfactory nerve is essential for detecting smells.