Loss and dysfunction of synapses have been linked to age-related cognitive decline and observed in Alzheimer's and other ...

MRI research found children with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently, but not dot quantities.

For most young children, the sight and voice of a parent serve as a primary source of comfort and safety. A new study ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Ever wondered how your brain stacks up against a computer? A recent study revealed just how many bits of data the human brain can process per second. A new study from the ...

The brain may inadvertently "learn" to have seizures by treating them like important memories to be stored, according to new ...

The brain reinforces seizure networks during post-seizure sleep by hijacking the same mechanisms used for memory consolidation.

The dominant theory in neuroscience has been that the sensory processing circuits in our brain are finalized in early ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...