Discover how stress hormones alter human neural connectivity to prioritize salience. Read more on how cortisol reshapes ...

Dinner last Friday was a hoot. Wine and conversation flowed; dishes were perfectly seasoned. The reward center of your brain lit up like the Fourth of July. This week you have a decision to make: ...

Investigators have discovered that activity in two widely distributed brain networks previously considered separate are actually correlated with each other and together play a key role in recognition ...

The brain’s memory center may begin life more like a crowded web than an empty canvas. Researchers discovered that early neural networks in the hippocampus are dense and seemingly random, then become ...

A Mendelian randomization study of 191 brain imaging phenotypes and 1,270 stroke patients finds genetic evidence that ...

Learning is often thought to require a brain. But learning is a broad concept that does not necessarily depend on neurons. If an organism uses information from past experiences to shape its future ...