A study of people who underwent surgery to treat epilepsy suggests the hippocampus may process words and speech when people ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London have shown that a single dose of psilocybin, the psychedelic ...

Red means stop. Red means danger. Red means passion. The color conjures up a whole range of emotions and associations. It ...

When dancers are in tune with each other, their brains may sync up, helping them move as one. Credit: The ATLAS Institute/CU ...

Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By tracking glutamate in real time, scientists can finally see how neurons process ...

When humans estimate the physical size of another person, they do not need to observe the entire body to make an accurate ...

Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of ...

Cedars-Sinai researchers created “young” immune cells from human stem cells that reversed cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice. The treated animals showed better memory and healthier ...

Only one has been shown in clinical trials to slow cognitive aging, by about two years. This is what the science says about ...

For the roughly 50 million Americans who live with chronic pain, the question has always been maddening: the injury healed ...