Understanding the neural basis of behavior is one of the fundamental goals of neuroscience. Ultimately, behavior arises from the integration of information by individual neurons across the nervous ...

The brain remains the most mysterious organ in the human body. Over the past several decades, neuroscientists have teased apart the various regions and networks in the brain to better understand how ...

General anesthesia is supposed to switch the brain off — no awareness, no memory, no response to the outside world. For the patient, it’s as close to nothing as waking life allows. But a new study ...

A study published on the 6th, local time, in the international academic journal *Nature* revealed that the brains of individuals under general anesthesia can distinguish between sounds and respond ...

Our brains keep on whirling long after we drift off to sleep. Each night, the hippocampus, a major hub for learning, replays experiences from the previous day and etches them into memory. And even in ...