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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Because lying is more work for the brain than telling the truth, scanning the organ that holds our deepest, darkest secrets could be the ultimate way to separate fact from fiction, researchers said Monday.
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Science & environment: Researchers in Switzerland manage to simulate part of a rat's brain in silicon
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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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Scientists believe they have located the part of the brain where dreams are created.
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Scientists say they have found the brain regions that help us to decide whether to look someone in the eye or look away.
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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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Recent research is providing new insight into experiences more often left to paranormal explanations.
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New research into Parkinson&#39;s disease is helping scientists better understand some of the mechanisms of this serious and disabling brain disorder, which affects about 1 million people in the United States.
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Paul Allen's project to map a mouse's brain is complete, but it's only the beginning of what neuroscientists see as the future of brain science
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Differences in the brain may increase the chances a person will take drugs, scientists say.
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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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William Sutherling of the Huntington Medical Research Institute demonstrates how to use magnetic imaging to hunt down seizure-causing brain tissue.
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A medical scan that can pick up brain tumours could also be used to tell whether a person is lying, US researchers have found. When a person is telling the truth they use different parts of their brain than
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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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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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It has been billed as one of the most massive information-crunching, gigabyte-gobbling research endeavors in history -- which might explain why after a year&#39;s work, scientists have gotten through only about one-tenth of a mouse&#39;s brain.