The Amazing Human Brain

Sleep provides a time for the brain to prune synapses to ensure only the most important information is retained.

More than a dozen people in Massachusetts suddenly developed severe amnesia, but there was no clear cause of their memory loss.

Modern neuroscience is fairly inept at decoding the workings of the Atari 2600 console, a new study finds.

The mind-body connection is more than just a catchphrase: A new study finds that increased levels of stress are indeed linked to greater risk of a heart attack or stroke.

Is it a foregone conclusion that we can't help closing our eyes during a sneeze? Not quite, researchers say.

Neuroscience suggests that people are predisposed to be more like Santa than Scrooge.

Researchers find that a decrease in gray matter in aging brains could explain why older people take fewer risks than younger people.

At one extreme, the self is a made-up construct arising from our complex brains. At the other, the self is a soul or spirit that can survive death.

Exercising aerobically may lead to changes in the size of certain parts of your brain, a new study finds.

The active ingredient in the drug ecstasy will be studied in large-scale clinical trials for the treatment of PTSD.

People may be less able to suppress a negative memory after they sleep.

Spiritual feelings may activate the same areas of the brain as other rewarding and pleasurable experiences, like love, sex and drugs.

Three people whose brains were examined after their deaths turned out to have signs of Alzheimer's disease. But they actually had good memory abilities right up until they died.

People who smoke pot may have worse coordination, even when they're not high.

A popular type of heartburn medication may raise a person's risk for a common type of stroke, a new study from Denmark finds.

Traumatic events may affect the brains of boys and girls differently, a new study finds.

In rare cases, the fungus that causes valley fever can also infect the brain, a new study finds.

The dinosaur's brain was "pickled" in a bog or swamp shortly after its death.

The fossilized brain is most likely from a species similar to Iguanodon, a large herbivorous dinosaur that lived about 133 million years ago.

Women's brains experience a monthly change, too.