Mozart was a genius but most child prodigies do not grow into elite adults.

A single case report hints at dormant abilities.

The same neural system handled English, Spanish and even invented words.

Compound 10 slowed dementia-like decline in mice.

Researchers may have stumbled on a completely unknown pathway.

The study probes how flexible the dreaming body can feel.

A wearable lens used the retina to reach mood circuits deep in the brain and reverse depression-like changes in mice.

A rescued sea lion is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about rhythm and the brain

Japanese researchers may have found a way to help neurons.

Brain scans suggest fatherhood leaves a biological mark on men.

After VR flight training, human brains began treating wings more like limbs.

In chess, faster moves are usually better. But what does that actually mean?

Scientists found unusual sleep rhythms in people with extraordinary autobiographical memory.

Understanding why people born blind never develop schizophrenia could transform how we think about and treat one of medicine’s most baffling conditions.

A new experimental Alzheimer’s compound called FLAV-27 improved memory and reduced disease-like damage in worms and mice.

A single 25-milligram dose of psilocybin briefly pushed the brains of psychedelic novices into a more chaotic, flexible state—and some traces of the experience were still visible a month later.

When dancers stepped in sync, their brain waves did too.

For decades, doctors have tried to treat depression with electricity. Now, a Houston startup wants to make that idea smaller, less invasive, and potentially usable from home. Motif Neurotech has received FDA approval for an Investigational Device Exemption, allowing it to begin an early feasibility study of an experimental brain-stimulation device for people with treatment-resistant […]

Inaudible sounds from heaters or pipes could be behind "paranormal" frights.

A blood protein allows scientists to turn living brain tissue clear and watch thoughts fire.

There are many factors affecting dementia and, importantly, several are risk factors that we can work on.

Psychedelics are making the brain's hierarchies flatter and more democratic.

A 20-minute nap can boost your chances of a creative breakthrough, according to new research.

Scientists have finally decoded how the human brain conjures mental images.

The brains even entered a psychedelic-like state without any drugs.

A single guided dose of psilocybin vastly outperforms standard nicotine patches in quitting smoking.

“It's all pseudoscience. There is no lie detector.”

Scientists found that our brains process colors in surprisingly similar ways.

Your brain spots AI voices in milliseconds, but your conscious mind hasn't caught up.

A new study using glowing mouse brains reveals how psychedelics hijack vision with memory.