Scientists harness mysteries of the brain
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A young woman, confined to a wheelchair, is told to think about moving another wheelchair in front of her, first to the left and then forward.
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Japanese researchers have implanted a small camera inside a mouse's brain to see how memory is formed, in an experiment they hope to some day apply to humans to treat illnesses such as Parkinson's disease.
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Researchers have found a way to induce  out-of-body experiences using virtual-reality goggles, helping  to explain a phenomenon reported by about one in 10 people.
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Rex Jung says researchers need to understand how the brain is put together to better understand how it unravels.
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Having a sound sleep after cramming for exams consolidates that learning, a new research has revealed. Neurologist Philippe Peigneux and his colleagues analysed brain activity in sleeping volunteers and found
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Scientists say they have identified an area of the brain that may explain why some people are obsessed with collecting items.
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UK and Swiss scientists find a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in healthy volunteers.
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Using virtual-reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences in healthy people.
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Norman Doidgeâs fascinating synopsis of the current revolution in neuroscience straddles the gap between science and self-help.
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U.S. scientists have, for the first time, applied a computer model of how the brain processes visual information to a complex, real world task.  People have been talking about computers imitating the brain for a long time, said Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Tomaso Poggio.
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An elite group of researchers wants to create a map of how your brain is wired. To do it, they've built a custom robot that peels 3-D brains like an apple, and pushes the resulting brain "tape" through an electron microscope.
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Neuroscientists are making such rapid progress in unlocking the brain's secrets that some are urging colleagues to debate the ethics of their work before it can be misused by governments, lawyers or advertisers.
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Science & environment: Political differences might be explained by a fundamental variation in how our brains are 'wired' to process information, study says.
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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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Turning specific cells on and off in fly brains can help researchers understand how individual parts of a complex system affect the whole animal.
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Researchers believe that they have found how the body protects itself against diseases such as Alzheimer's.
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The new study clarifies the picture of what the sleeping brain does with newly studied material.