Brain study reveals memories stick when learning triggers a brief “energy emergency” in glucose-sensing neurons.

Researchers report that they have successfully tested a novel approach for teaching the human brain to learn through external manipulation and neural feedback -- what they call the 'sculpting' of ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in green. Source: Paul Wicks/Wickemedia Commons In a groundbreaking discovery, neurocientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured brain images of active ...

Discover 25 shocking secrets of the human brain that will redefine your understanding of the mind. From creating reality to ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the brain developed during childhood, settled into a stable form in early ...