Humans and other animals encounter and remember countless experiences each day; when we sleep, groups of cells in the brain known as neuronal ensembles replay these experiences to consolidate them ...

Sleep helps the brain to cleanse itself—and now this process can be measured in humans entirely noninvasively. Researchers at the University of Oulu have developed a method that allows the increased ...

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist, I am always looking for the biological underpinnings of mental processes—not as an effort to distill mystery into molecules, but to ...

Imagine that you are considering buying stock in a company. You know what its current value is, and you suspect that you could make a healthy return on your investment. But this stock is very volatile ...

The brain's ability to process information is known to be supported by intricate connections between different neuron populations. A key objective of neuroscience research has been to delineate the ...

Newswise — In an unprecedented new study in the journal Cell Reports, researchers have shown neurotransmitters in the human brain are released while processing of the emotional content of language, ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant - to take just one example - the brain mentally starts a new "chapter" of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity.

Around the perimeter of the lesion, the newly discovered “regenerative” astrocytes begin to seal the defect by forming long ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cologne and the University of Würzburg have found in training studies that the distinction between known and unknown words can be trained and leads to more ...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has become an indispensable tool in medical imaging, providing unique insights into the ...

A major new study reveals that autistic children’s brains process faces differently, and those differences may begin earlier ...