When someone saw real projected lines, activity in the fusiform gyrus was stronger than when they knew they were simply ...

The “missing link” helps adults grow new neurons—something long thought to end after childhood—and that discovery could lead ...

If you want to experience the highest values in life—love, compassion, beauty, creativity, joy, and higher consciousness—your brain isn’t the right place to turn. These experiences exist in ...

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Home; Health; Features 12 things we know about how the brain works. If workplaces had nap rooms, multitasking was frowned upon, and meetings were held during walks, we'd be vastly more productive ...

If the brain isn't limited by memory space, why don't we remember everything? This is because the brain's memory system runs ...

The brain tells us what to do, how to act, what to think and what to say. It even remembers the face of strangers on the street and wraps them up in our worries, plops a party hat on them and ...

Your brain processes an estimated 34 gigabytes of information every day – enough to crash most computer systems – but it can only afford to keep a tiny fraction of that data in long-term storage.

Things that go bump in the night. getty. This article is the first in a series that explores in a straight forward way the often not so straight forward inner workings of the brain and mind.

Research featured in the journal Cell Stem Cell in 2019 revealed that neurons continue to form in the part of the brain where memories are processed in your 40s, 50s, and even your 90s.

But as essential as the brain is to our existence, it's still as mysterious to us as a planet from a far-flung galaxy. Even in 2018, neuroscientists are still discovering fundamental facts about ...