As emotions rise and fall in everyday life, your brain keeps up, constantly adjusting. These transitions between feelings—like joy, sadness, or fear—aren’t just random reactions. They’re part of a ...

An “extraordinary” brain network discovery shows that Parkinson’s disease may not be a movement disorder after all ...

The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring ...

Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...

Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and attention are wired. The same circuitry that helps you recognize a friend’s ...

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

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