A new study led by researchers at Mass General Brigham suggests that different brain regions activated by creative tasks are part of one common brain circuit.

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Your brain’s natural rinse cycle flows while you sleep. A new study suggests certain medications interfere with that ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

A new study led by researchers at Mass General Brigham suggests that different brain regions activated by creative tasks are ...

This work presents potentially important findings suggesting that a combination of transcranial stimulation approaches applied for a short period could improve memory performance after administration.

The investigation was a global endeavor that led to a Post series exposing the Smithsonian's “racial brain collection.” ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in ...

According to Bottemanne and Joly, brain imaging studies have shown that fathers can experience alterations in gray matter across many different brain regions. Gray matter is the cortical tissue that ...