The human brain continuously makes predictions about future events. This process helps humans process familiar stimuli while ...

Large-scale MRI analysis suggests that several brain disorders are linked to brains that appear older than a person’s ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

Scientists have long known that the human brain continues developing well beyond the teenage years, with important changes ...

A research team has identified, for the first time in humans, and in a realistic environment, a key neurophysiological mechanism in memory formation: ripple-type brain waves—high-frequency electrical ...

The Allen Institute, together with partner organizations, today launched the Brain Health accelerator: an ambitious global research initiative seeking to identify the specific brain cells and circuits ...

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...

A new study published in PLoS Biology has found that learning a new motor skill sets off two different types of cellular ...