As we go through life, our brains run different processing modes. Some—the attention and sensory systems—result in very ...

A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

The amount of sugar in the brain plays a key role in governing the activity of the brain cells that make myelin, a study ...

I've always wondered what exactly happens inside my brain after a sleepless night. Why does everything feel harder—thinking through problems, remembering where I put my keys, even just reacting ...

Does the brain treat these skills as one system early in life and separate them later? Or are they distinct from the ...

On April 18, 1861, a doctor in Paris cut open the brain of a patient who had died the day before — and unwittingly identified a brain region that's key to spoken language. The patient, Louis Victor ...