A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, but by widespread structural changes across the brain that build up over ...

Most known for its role in movement, the cerebellum could compensate for flagging mental functions elsewhere in the brain.

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

So many of life's most pivotal decisions come down to one question: Should you listen to your logic or your emotions? Popular ...