"We've long monitored workers' physical health, tracking injuries and muscle strain. Now we have the ability to monitor mental strain..."

A new study reveals working memory is an orchestra rather than a solo act—with multiple brain regions contributing to help us maintain info.

A common sleep aid restores healthier sleep patterns and protects mice from the brain damage seen in neurodegenerative disorders.

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.