The Amazing Human Brain

Being awake during surgery can be terrifying, but laughing might help

A new study suggests that, by at least one measure, women's brains are biologically younger than men's.

These rats loved cocaine — until they got their memories "erased."

At first, the man couldn't believe his eyes. The icons on his desktop computer were slowly jumping out of his monitor, hovering in the space between him and the screen.

Smoking pot just once might be linked to changes in young brains

A new study links belly fat, or visceral fat, with brain shrinkage.

An arrow points right. Turn it 180 degrees, it still points right. Turn it again... it points right.

The brain of a very old human ancestor looks a lot like an ape's and a little like a human's.

The shape of your brain may say a lot about the Neanderthal in you.

It started with a sinus infection that wouldn't go away.

Miniature kidneys produced in the lab were hiding something from the researchers that grew them.

In the latest example of bacteria being "literally everywhere," scientists appear to have found evidence of microbes living harmlessly in our brains.

A new experimental therapy for Parkinson's disease that involves injecting millions of special stem cells into the brain of patients with the condition is currently being tested in a clinical trial.

What's happening in our brains when we feel a sense of awe?

A supercomputer that "thinks" like a brain can simulate neural activity in real time.

Going to space does more than change the way you look at the world — it also changes your brain.