PASS theory explains cognition through four processes—planning, attention, simultaneous, and successive—that offer a dynamic ...

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For ...

The cerebral cortex is the brain's outer layer, the main site of conscious perceptions, judgments and the planning and ...

The Internal Revenue Service will reportedly eliminate its civil rights office as part of the White Houses cost-cutting efforts The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to eliminate around 20,000 ...

Grey’s Anatomy is TV’s longest-running medical drama ever, and it’s looking to lengthen that lead a bit more with yet another season. ABC has renewed the Shonda Rhimes-created hospital soap ...

[Warning: The following post contains spoilers for Grey’s Anatomy Season 21 Episode 13, “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”] Well, who could’ve seen this coming? (Sense the sarcasm.) ...

NEW DELHI: A 68-year-old brain-dead woman's family donated her organs, giving a new lease of life to three critically ill patients. The woman was suffering from cerebral edema, a condition that ...

a postdoctoral associate in internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. “We found the volume of a part of the brain called the inferior parietal region shrunk in ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives.

But, when it comes to the brain, a recent study suggests that there’s a point where it begins to age much more rapidly, before leveling off again. So when is it? According to the authors of the ...