In A Nutshell Researchers used gamma-frequency brain stimulation to increase altruistic choices in a lab game. The effect was modest and strongest when participants had less money than their partner.

Mass General Brigham researchers are betting that the next big leap in brain medicine will come from teaching artificial ...

A 20-year study found brain games that boost speed and split attention helped prevent Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

Stimulating two brain areas, nudging them to collectively fire in the same way, increases a person's ability to behave ...

Olympic skiers, bobsledders and speed skaters all have to master one critical moment: when to start. As athletes prepare for ...

A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, but by widespread structural changes across the brain that build up over ...

Children can live and even thrive after hemispherectomies due to brain plasticity, and split brain experiments reveal unique cognition. Hawley changes stance on war powers resolution after Trump ...

Habibeh Khoshbouei receives funding from NIH grants. Marcelo Febo receives funding from NIH grants. Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ages—9, 32, 66 and 83—when the pattern of connections inside our brains shift.

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...