Brain scans reveal imagination forms full experiences using memory and language, reshaping how scientists understand mental imagery.

As millions of Americans adjust their clocks for daylight saving time this week, many experience disruptions in their sleep and daily routines – a reminder of the importance of circadian rhythms that ...

An international team led by the ITACA Institute at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has developed one of the most comprehensive and detailed structural atlases of the human brain to date ...

What do artificial intelligence and the human brain have in common? It appears Google wants to find out, and is willing to go to great lengths to unlock the secrets. It's only a tiny sliver of the ...

A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature. Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million connections inside the ...

A series of recent studies in mice and rats has mapped specific brain circuits that appear to drive chronic pain, identifying ...

Consistently getting a good night’s sleep seems more important than ever after researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published their findings on sleep and brain age. The scientists ...

The brain plays a big part in the aging process, and scientists think they’ve pinpointed the specific cells that control it. In a study of mice, researchers at the Allen Institute identified certain ...

HERSHEY, Pa. — Brain growth and maturation doesn’t progress in a linear, step-wise fashion. Instead, it’s a dynamic, choreographed sequence that shifts in response to genetics and external stimuli ...