The Amazing Human Brain

Mental fuzziness can be frustrating and can be caused by lack of sleep or even an underlying illness.

Researchers discovered that six psychiatric disorders seemed linked to the same underlying brain wiring.

A new brain-computer-interface device doesn't require open-brain surgery to implant.

"De novo" genes may have paved the way for humans' big brains.

Scientists discovered a "protective shield" in the brain.

An implanted device allows a man to translate his brain signals into written words.

Using fMRI, scientists decoded what people were hearing and thinking.

Researchers taught a synthetic neuron network to play a version of the retro arcade game "Pong" by integrating the brain cells into an electrode array controlled by a computer program.

Brain scans revealed a "map" of this universal language network.

A new optical illusion, the "expanding hole," tricks 86% of people into seeing a growing dark region in the center of the stationary image.

Scientists used brain scans to unlock the secrets of working memory.

We all have that friend who "knows everything."

The digestive power of this amoeba is the stuff of nightmares when it plays out in a human brain.

Twin girls who were born joined at the head have been successfully separated after a months-long medical endeavor.

You can talk to your plants — but they won't care.

A quick zap to the brain could help revive missing memories.

Last December, a tourist in Hawaii ate a slug on a dare — not realizing, of course, a wiggly brain-loving parasite was along for the ride.