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How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It ...

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The mind isn’t the brain. It’s what the brain does. It runs on emotion, filters, and loops. Understand it, and you can begin ...

Since their discovery in 2004, the grid cells in the brain, which are important for our orientation, have been regarded as a ...

Our latest study showed that taste and smell were both found to activate a region of the brain important for taste, hunger ...

Seeing and imagining use similar brain machinery. New research reveals the brain circuit that identifies what is real, which ...

While doctors have significantly refined their techniques over the subsequent 150 years— ether made patients throw up and was flammable enough to cause mid-surgery explosions —there are still ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Chatbots can facilitate ‘cognitive offloading,’ or taking shortcuts when learning. But emerging research on AI and cognitive ...

On TikTok, vagus nerve stimulation sounds like a miracle cure. Influencers claim it can help with a long list of ailments, including—but not limited to—anxiety, stress, depression, and inflammation.