A new study reveals that close friendships can synchronize brain activity and influence decision-making, particularly in ...

How does friendship affect the human brain and influence behavior? In a new JNeurosci paper, Jia Jin and colleagues, from ...

Popular Mechanics recently reported that scientists are worried about the effects of extreme heat on the human brain.

New research published in Nature Communications reveals that infants just five days old can tell the difference between two distinct forms of prosocial and antisocial behavior—and they prefer the ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far ...

A new study reveals that neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. A ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

Scientists have discovered how a key protein helps maintain strong connections between brain cells that are crucial for ...

Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered how a cluster of thalamic neurons links physical pain to emotional trauma, ...

Researchers have uncovered how primate brains transform flat, 2D visual inputs into rich, 3D mental representations of ...

Behind all the flash, AI is quietly removing the intellectual itch, the false starts, the second guessing, all those difficult mental activities that accompany brain work.

Does something like "free will" really exist? We often take it for granted, but philosophers, psychologists and ...