People with aphantasia still generate brain activity when attempting to visualize, but that image may be getting lost in ...

Researchers have identified brain circuits disrupted by prenatal alcohol exposure, which may explain the cognitive ...

are helping to reveal the hidden anatomy of brain wiring and giving scientists a new understanding of how thoughts, memories and emotions are formed. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports.

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With the patients’ consent, he figured, maybe he could also learn something else about the brain’s wiring at the same time. “Some are attorneys so they’re writing contracts. Some patients ...

a young child will eventually be able to identify dogs going forward. But brain wiring begins before humans are born, before they have experiences or senses like sight to guide this cellular ...

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex acts as a "memory machine," constantly detecting novel stimuli to refine its predictions of the future.

Neuralink’s brain-computer interface technology also has been discussed for other potential uses, for example, in mental ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Every 25 minutes in the United States, a baby is born addicted to opioids. That heartbreaking statistic is but one ...