A new study finds the hippocampus reorganizes memories to predict rewards. This discovery explains how the brain learns and why Alzheimer's affects decision-making.

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

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Researchers discovered a feedback loop between nerve cells, the immune system and the heart. They think it shows promise as a ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

The team thinks this means that the cingulate cortex manages the social purpose and context of the facial gesture, which is ...

Indian American researcher’s new AI-enhanced scanning method promises to boost quest for high-resolution mapping of the brain ...

When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out on ...

Rats do not simply drift through vague, sleepy fog. Their brains light up with detailed replays of the day, from sprinting ...

A clever tropical fish has flipped how biologists are thinking about memory, brains and visual recognition in the animal ...

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...