Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, ...

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Researchers have found that neurons can burn and even make their own fat to power the brain. A faulty protein stops this ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

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By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

Nostalgia Meets Neuroscience The popular image of the 1960s and 70s childhood is one of free-range freedom: wood-paneled ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

Our brain wiring seems to undergo four major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83, which could influence our capacity to ...

Ground-breaking research analyzed over 4,000 brain scans to identify five different neuroscience-based life stages.