Scientists have been investigating how the brain makes decisions by participating in the storage of associations between different stimuli.

There seems to be a lower volume in important parts of the brain related to behavior, emotional regulation, and impulse ...

A brain MRI (an artificially colored image) can detail the risk of memory loss and other cognitive difficulties, according to ...

Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

A new study reveals how the brain can make decisions based not only on direct experiences, but also on indirect associations ...

Answering the question of when consciousness emerges is deeply tied to the mystery of what it actually is and how it can be ...

Intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) provide people with paralysis a means to control devices with signals decoded from brain activity. Despite recent impressive advances, these devices ...

Lexi Cook tells PEOPLE about raising her son, Bo, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 4 months old, and how some doctors have given her hope.