The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and send information and commands throughout the brain and the nervous system.

For decades, researchers have attempted to pinpoint the specific areas of the brain responsible for human intelligence. A new ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that damage to small blood vessels in the hereditary disease CADASIL may disrupt ...

Talking to yourself feels deeply human. Inner speech helps you plan, reflect, and solve problems without saying a word.

A new study offers hope for brain cancer patients facing memory loss from radiotherapy. By blocking a single immune receptor, scientists preserved cognition in mice without dulling the cancer-killing ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

You can use up all the storage on your phone or max out your computer's drive, but can you use up all the memory space in your brain? Despite how you might feel before an exam or after a sleepless ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...