A French civil servant functioned normally with 90 percent of his brain missing. How is this possible? Research reveals ...

Youngsters who once built things, played games, and read books are now immersed in one-dimensional, passive tidbits of ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Coimbra have discovered that the human brain organizes hand movements much like an alphabet — combining a small set of simple motions ...

Spinning stories out of nothing is a deeply human impulse. As a neurologist, I see my patients do it all the time.

The relationships we form as adults often echo those we had with our parents. According to attachment theory—one of the most ...

A new clinical trial suggests stem cell therapy may restore vision in people with advanced dry age-related macular degeneration, a disease that currently has no cure.

Giuseppi Riva first started to think about the role that artificial intelligence (AI) can play in human cognition when he and ...

Perhaps no element of human life inspires as many questions, or holds as much mystery, as the brain.This vital organ is the control center of the ...

Understanding more about how we decide to change our minds may lead to ways to train our minds to make better choices.

New research reveals something unsettling about human psychology: our brains tend to synchronize with people we trust, which ...

More than 500 researchers from around the world — including dozens of deaf and signing scientists — will converge at ...