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Halloween is just around the corner, and some people will celebrate by watching scary movies about brain-eating zombies. But even more frightening are real-life parasites that feed on the human brain, and they can be harder to kill than their horror-mo…

MIT neuroscientists present a new model of working memory that explains how the brain holds information in mind (the ‘memory’ part) and also executes volitional control over it (the ‘working’ part).

Neuroscientists have discovered how the brain tries to compensate for its poor performance in tasks that require complicated mental transformations.

Cannabis withdrawal syndrome is real and can have ‘highly disabling’ effects — especially psychologically — warn the authors of a new study.

As you encounter new experiences and form new memories, your brain changes. Now, researchers show that some of these change occur in a brain region devoted to visual perception.

Experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) showed that the brain’s parahippocampal place area responded more strongly to a scene recognition task while the occipital place area responded more to a navigation task.

Single neurons in the brain’s primary visual cortex can reliably detect straight lines, even though the cellular makeup of the neurons is constantly changing, according to a new study. The study’s findings lay the groundwork for future studies into how…

Whole-brain radiotherapy can be delivered more safely to patients with brain metastases by avoiding the hippocampus, according to a new study.

A study of mice reveals that the scent of linalool, a natural alcohol found in lavender, relieves anxiety through its effect on olfactory nerve cells.

A new review reveals how lavender mellows us out — and why some day psychiatrists and surgeons might be prescribing patients a whiff of the purple stuff.