Decades of research have shown that, to make decisions, our brains gradually gather evidence for each option over time.

As more states legalize recreational marijuana use, here’s what the research says about what cannabis is really doing to your ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of ...

Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs.

The result supports earlier studies that used brain imaging to find evidence that the same neural circuits are involved in ...

A tennis return can look almost automatic. The ball comes off the racket, crosses the court in a blur, and somehow a player ...

A new study finds that looking at something and imagining it triggers the same exact process in the brain. It's also very similar to the process artificial intelligence uses to create an image.

The approaches seem disparate, which is why most brain scientists choose individual strategies. But Silver believes the ...

The hippocampus is a crucial part of the brain that plays a role in memory and learning, especially in remembering directions ...

Mice make use of rapid nerve cell interactions in the brain's smell center to distinguish one odor from another, a new study shows. Both mice and humans can rapidly identify odors, researchers say, in ...

A man with advanced HIV died with drug-resistant mpox replicating in his brain, US scientists found, in a case that shows how ...