Sleep helps the brain to cleanse itself—and now this process can be measured in humans entirely noninvasively. Researchers at ...

The brain's 'garbage disposal' system falters with age, a new study finds, with long-lived neurons offloading clumpy, old proteins onto other brain cells. Many of those proteins are involved in brain ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...

While others are just "chatting," your brain is doing something else. It's scanning. Micro-expressions that flash across ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

Most people want autism breakthroughs—but few know the crucial role brain donation plays in making them happen. Autism ...

Scientists have discovered a brain circuit that gives pain its emotional sting, explaining why some hurts linger as suffering. The breakthrough challenges our beliefs about how we process pain and may ...

Scientists have long known that when sounds are faint or objects are seen through fog in the distance, repetition of these weak or ambiguous sensory “inputs” can result in different perceptions inside ...

What happens in the brain when someone witnesses toxic behavior in the workplace? Researchers at Rutgers Business School, in ...