A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

Schema fit enables hard ideas to click, learn assimilation vs accommodation and use pattern testing to understand faster ...

At just two months old, babies are already organizing the world in their minds. Brain scans revealed distinct patterns as ...

A 20-year study found a brain game that boosts speed and splits attention helped prevent Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, termed "one-shot learning," have remained unknown. A mysterious type of ...

A study of 26,000 older adults finds that moderate cannabis use is associated with larger brain volumes and better memory, attention, and processing speed.

Rice University scientists have developed the first complete, label-free molecular atlas of the Alzheimer's brain in an ...

Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.

A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for ...

By studying the tiny brains of honeybees, researchers are learning more about how we make decisions.

‘Kind of amazing.’ A brain game can cut dementia risk by 25 percent, study shows.

Mass General Brigham researchers are betting that the next big leap in brain medicine will come from teaching artificial ...