Dolphins enjoy a positive public image despite their sexually aggressive tendencies and other well-documented, generally skuzzy behavior. It’s not that snakes haven’t done anything to deserve their ...

Creating similes is one of the best ways to stimulate creativity. They warm up your mental engines and help you look at the world with new and different perspectives. Similes help you understand one ...

A global team has constructed the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date. A global collaboration of over 150 researchers has created the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian ...

SAN DIEGO — The attendees of the second-annual Autism Health Summit had already sat through hours of presentations about treatments that promise miracles to help heal the condition — water filters and ...

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on October 21 ordered doctors to resume tube-feeding Terri Schindler-Schiavo, 39, a severely brain-damaged woman, despite a judicial order to allow her to die of starvation.

This is Part 3 of a four-part series on: What Actually Are Emotions? “Emotions are not what we think they are. They are not universally expressed and recognized. They are not hardwired brain reactions ...

Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink has implanted a brain–computer interface (BCI) in a second person. The company could implant eight more of the devices this year, Musk said. In a nearly 9-hour-long podcast ...

In the name of science, Dr. Nico Dosenbach had scanned his own brain dozens of times. But this was the first time he'd taken a mind-bending substance before sliding into the MRI tunnel. "I was, like, ...

Cognitive functioning affects how people think and their ability to remember things. Impairment in this area of brain health may cause a decline in how someone responds to their environment mentally ...

Time spent watching television or playing computer games has measurable and long-term effects on children's brain function, according to a review of 23 years of neuroimaging research, which while ...

It pains Tim Odegard that four decades after a misguided approach to diagnosing dyslexia kept him from getting help in school, thousands of children across the U.S. are needlessly suffering for the ...