A single missing molecule in the brain is emerging as a powerful new clue to why learning and memory are altered in Down ...

The human brain is not a passive recorder of events, it is an active simulator that constantly rehearses futures, rewrites ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists discovered cells within the brain’s hippocampus that store memories of specific locations. These cells also play an important role in storing ...

Andrew Pines, MD, MA, a resident in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a researcher in the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, is the lead author of a paper published ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in ...

Andrew Pines, MD, MA, a resident in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a researcher in the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, is the lead author of a paper published ...

In a study published in Frontiers in Science, scientists from Purdue University and the Georgia Institute of Technology ...

Your brain can learn from imagined experiences almost like real ones, shaping how you feel about people and future ...

Multispectral Intelligent Vision System with Embedded Low-Power Neural Computing is now nearing completion.

Scientists from the UNC School of Medicine recently discovered that junk food disrupts memory circuits in the brain almost instantaneously. Within just four days, neurons in the hippocampus became ...

The human brain is a marvel of nature, a labyrinth of neurons and synapses that dictates every aspect of our behavior, ...