Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Understanding why we always have room for dessert could lead to new treatments for obesity, researchers have revealed.

Neuroscientist Kamilla Souza is bringing the study of whale and dolphin brains to her home country of Brazil. Now there's a team of Brazilian scientists intent on understanding the marine mammals.

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Your brain’s natural rinse cycle flows while you sleep. A new study suggests certain medications interfere with that ...

Using a new technology and computational method, researchers from Fred Hutch Cancer Center and The University of Texas MD ...

Thankfully, there are things you can do to minimize your microplastic intake. Before you cook your next meal, let's head to ...

In a world that constantly pushes us to seek love, validation, and worth from external sources, choosing to love yourself is an act of defiance.

New drugs for early Alzheimer’s disease may allow people to live without help for up to 39 additional months, a new study estimates. But experts urge caution.

Two studies published in the latest issue of Science, led by Dr. Fernando García-Moreno, Ikerbasque researcher at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience and the University of the Basque Country ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly’s own immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of ...