How” and “why” our brains like music are two separate questions. A recent popular article sheds light on how. Explorations of ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

Researchers found three master genes that alter brain development in Down syndrome, offering new clues about learning and memory differences.

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

If you ask someone how to lower their risk of a heart attack, most people can name a few steps. But if you ask how to reduce dementia risk, many would assume it is out of their control. But that ...

The screen worked, flagging expected cancer genes. But it also kept returning something that seemed impossible: genes for synapses, glutamate receptors, and neural signaling pathways. “We absolutely ...

A single exercise session increased electrical activity in a brain region tied to learning and memory, a first-of-its-kind ...