Neuroscience

The hit show Severance can be refashioned as a teaching moment about certain brain disorders. But its famed “Innie” versus “Outie” conceit is totally bogus

A style of teaching that gets adolescents to reflect beyond the here and now may help their brain grow in ways that enhance life

Findings reveal the memory-related brain processes that generate unwanted thoughts when people are sleep deprived

The centennial of the discovery of brain waves in humans exposes a chilling tale involving Nazis, war between Russia and Ukraine, suicide and the vicissitudes of history

The brain is sometimes called the most complex machine in the known universe. But the thoughts that it outputs putter along at a trifling 10 bits per second, the pace of a conversation

The healing potential of the brain’s most interconnected nerve intrigues researchers

Researchers directed electric current to activate targeted facial muscles and then asked study participants how they felt

New diagnostic techniques can pick up these brain injuries and ensure people get help

Expertise bulks up the brain’s ability to think deeply, a skill that may generalize across tasks

A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brain to explain our awareness

Human echolocation repurposes parts of the brain’s visual cortex for sound, even in sighted people

What we think about when we think about “zilch” is surprisingly complex, neuroscientists find