Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes, and sometimes two instruments, ingeniously recombined, can accomplish feats that neither could have done on its own.

Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever-changing neuronal ...

Human evolution has revolved around food, from identifying and foraging for it to growing and preparing it. Researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex that responds to food and ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain ...

University of California, Los Angeles researchers have discovered that chronic stress flips brain activity between two ...

Mathematicians are investigating how the intricate folds in the human brain – which have increased as our species has evolved – help to improve our brainpower.

Three developmental neuroscientists presented their research on adolescent brain development and the risk factors for ...

This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Researchers from the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed the intrinsic relationship between the topological structure of human brain ...

The link between gut microbiome and eating behaviours, especially palatable food intake, is a growing focus of scientific ...

Comparing consciousness to a plasma ball can help us better understand key aspects of subjective conscious experience.