Study shows humans flexibly deploy different reasoning strategies to tackle challenging mental tasks — offering insights for building machines that think more like us.

"How adolescents sleep influences how their brains function, and that influences their mental health outcomes."

Current treatments for alcohol abuse are limited in their effectiveness and come with side effects. Precisely targeting the neurons involved in binge drinking could lead to better options.

Neural activity patterns can encode competing hypotheses about which landmark will lead to the correct destination.

Focused research organizations (FROs) undertake large research efforts and have begun to yield scientific advances.

MIT study finds an easily measurable brain wave shift may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia.

Left and right brains hear speech differently, yet how this divide forms was unclear − until mouse studies showed each hemisphere runs on its own developmental clock.

Your brain processes the pleasure of everyday behaviors like eating and drinking similarly to the pleasure of using drugs. Disentangling them requires understanding how memories are formed.

Health influencers – perhaps including Health Secretary RFK Jr. – are promoting the chemical as an elixir that improves memory and focus. But evidence for these claims is thin.

The depth of small grooves in the brain's surface is linked to stronger network connectivity and better reasoning ability, research finds.