&#39;Dream centre&#39; of the brain found
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Scientists believe they have located the part of the brain where people&#39;s dreams are created. A team from the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, made the discovery after treating a woman who stopped dreaming after she had a stroke.
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Scientists have identified a type of stem cell that appears to fuel the growth of brain tumours. The Canadian and American researchers say their discovery could lead to new ways of targeting cancer cells.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to dampen down the impact of bad memories in people's brains.
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In a finding that offers insights into how young children learn language, researchers have discovered the early learning experiences of owls forever alter their brain circuitry.
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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Researchers have discovered for the first time that the human brain can grow new nerve cells.
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Imaging the brain during social interaction reveals a deficit that may be tied to a sense of self.
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Scientists believe learning a second language alters a part of the brain.
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Scientists say they have located the parts of the brain that help us &#39;unlearn&#39; our fears. One of the main areas involved is the same as that used to learn fears in the first place, experiments by the New York University team showed.
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A key mechanism in the brains of people with HIV dementia has been identified by scientists at the US Department of Energy&#39;s Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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The new study clarifies the picture of what the sleeping brain does with newly studied material.
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The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released a major chunk of data from its mapping of the mouse brain genome, hoping the information will help researchers understand how the human brain works.
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Researchers in Spain set about creating a man-made version of the part of the brain that controls movement.
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The sophistication of the human brain is not simply the result of steady evolution, according to new research. Instead, humans are truly privileged animals with brains that have developed in a type of extraordinarily
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A 3D map tracking genes at work in the mouse brain has been completed and posted online, a boon for researchers studying neurological disorders, the institute founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced.
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Microscopic imaging techniques have enabled scientists to delve deep into the brain of a living animal to see how visual circuitry works.
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When the human brain mates with the computerâs, we get the automation of judgment.