They discovered that flashes of insight trigger a burst of activity in the brain’s hippocampus, a cashew-shaped structure ...

Xiaowei Gu and Joshua Johansen at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered key circuitry in the rat brain ...

Researchers at National Taiwan University have developed a new type of spintronic device that mimics how synapses work in the ...

OSA-related hypoxemia linked to increased frontoparietal cerebrovascular pathology, which is associated with reduced medial temporal lobe integrity.

Secondary psychosis caused by a lesion was mapped to the hippocampus, with a peak in the posterior subiculum and was consistent across symptoms.

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

Researchers identified two brain networks involved in word retrieval -- the cognitive process of accessing words we need to speak. A semantic network processes meaning in middle/inferior frontal gyri, ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Researchers at MIT have uncovered a powerful way the brain "unlearns" fear: through a dopamine-driven reward signal. By ...