As you experience or encounter new things, your brain must encode this information via the right neural networks at the right ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

New research reveals that memories of fatty and sugary foods are encoded in the hippocampus, helping explain why some ...

Understanding and treating brain disorders such as tremor, imbalance, and speech impairments requires deep knowledge of the ...

Getting therapeutic drugs past the blood-brain barrier has long been one of medicine's most difficult challenges, limiting ...

Researchers have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and problem solving.

REM stages and one REM stage. Ideally, you repeatedly cycle through each stage. Learn how long each stage lasts.

Neuroscientists have carefully studied how synapses only have access to their own “local” information, yet collectively they ...