New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information.

Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human ...

A team at Carnegie Mellon University is helping kids understand artificial intelligence with a soft, squishy, LED-lit neural ...

Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how, according to a recent study, living through a pandemic might accelerate brain aging.

Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain ...

When Gideon Dobson's parents need a mental health break, he stays at Ryan House, where children with "life-limiting" medical ...

The cast of Grey’s Anatomy has welcomed quite a few children over the years. Though the long-running medical series, which first premiered in 2005, is better known for its operating-room twists than ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...

Pound-for-pound, the human brain is the body’s most metabolically costly organ, consuming 20% of our energy and accounting for an outsize portion of our anatomy compared with most other animals.

He'd make things up that didn't happen. Then he'd get angry when questioned, as if remembering was an attack on him. Every time she brought up something he did wrong, suddenly the conversation became ...