In animals with social structures, the drive to reproduce is a complex process; governed by the brain, it's influenced by both internal cues such as hormones and external factors such as interactions ...

The brain thrives on predictability...It uses routines to reduce mental load, conserve energy, and create a sense of psychologica ...

Researchers have demonstrated that catheter-based polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) can ...

A project group from Quebec's Laval University and Harvard Medical School has now developed a better method, using catheter-based polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT).

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is usually built with silicon chips and code. But scientists are now exploring something very ...

Although the terms brain pliability, brain plasticity, and neuroplasticity are closely tied to the 20th century, the concepts ...

A study of nearly 10,000 adolescents has identified distinct differences in the brain structures of those who used substances before age 15 compared to those who did not. Many of these structural ...

Mysterious net-like structures that surround select neurons in the brain may be the key for better understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, schizophrenia and other neurological ...

Psychopaths have different brain structures to the rest of the population, a study has revealed, helping shed new light on one corner of the "dark personality" triad. Diagnosis with psychopathy is ...

Long working hours might not just be bad for you, they could also be altering the structure of your brain, a new study suggests. The research, published Tuesday, found “significant changes” in ...

Scientists have developed brain implants that can decode internal speech — identifying words that two people spoke in their minds without moving their lips or making a sound.