A new doctoral dissertation shows that gambling disorder is linked to brain networks involved in self-control and brain ...

Why is it that some people seem to come up with novel ideas more frequently than others? Why do ideas seem to hit at the most odd hours? Could research in treating brain strokes help you develop a ...

In infancy and childhood is laid the groundwork for an integrated personality in the making, in preparation for adaptation to the outside world. The malleability of the nervous system [neuroplasticity ...

Hearing aids are quietly undergoing a revolution, shifting from simple sound amplifiers to wearable computers that can read ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

New research suggests that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may come from a brain glitch that confuses inner thoughts for external voices. Normally, the brain predicts the sound of its own ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

Why do we care about places we may never visit? Why do stories about wildlife, people and cultures stay with us long after we ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...