A new study reveals that the basolateral amygdala (BLA) plays a key role in calibrating prosocial behavior based on emotional ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section of a mammalian brain. This feat, part of the MICrONS Project, rivals the ...

Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date — a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire ...

In ‘The Mind Electric’ (Washington Square, June), the neurologist explores the roots of neurological disease and the narratives that shape medicine.

It’s not just a euphemism; booze kills brain cells—kind of, at least. Because it’s a neurotoxin, alcohol can actually damage ...

Researchers use neuroimaging techniques to map creativity, not simply to specific regions, but to a "creativity circuit" in ...

Can you guess who the little girl’s real mother is in just 5 seconds? A or B? Find out if you’ve got genius-level intuition!

In 1979, famed molecular biologist Francis Crick stated that it would be “impossible to create an exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” ...

Snippets of “sci-fi movies, sports, animation and nature” were used in the research to create the largest brain map ever.

A warning sign of cognitive decline is an older dog with an established history of being house-trained who starts urinating ...