Every decision begins invisibly. Long before someone acts, the brain is already hard at work gathering evidence, weighing ...

Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the ...

Editor’s note: Season 8 of the podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets back to basics with an in-depth examination of the brain in different states. Each episode will focus on one of ...

First and foremost, the essays of participants who used no tools (ChatGPT or search engines) had wider variability in both ...

A new computer model of brain metabolism, the most comprehensive of its kind, integrates more than 16,800 biochemical interactions across neurons, supporting glial cells and the bloodstream. This open ...

Now, researchers have successfully modeled the vesicle cycle in unprecedented detail, revealing new information about the way our brain functions. How do we think, feel, remember, or move?

Disordered executive function can impair a person’s ability to organize and manage behavior. Executive function is a broad group of mental skills that enable people to complete tasks and ...

A new study may overturn more than 100 years of accepted science about how the brain functions. Researchers applied a mathematical model to brain activity and found that brain function may have ...

The model's attention patterns show connections between specific brain regions and cognitive functions like perception and reasoning. Many prior models focus exclusively on generating captions ...

One set of MRI images shows how brain-wide connectivity changes as mice age, as well as how specific regions, like the memory-involved subiculum, change more than the rest of the mouse’s brain.

“Different colored plant foods contain different brain-boosting nutrients, such as plant polyphenols.” She tells people to lean into all the different vegetables, but she’s not leading with ...