However, they didn’t find any difference in accuracy in the way the brain represented the digit version of zero—0—compared with the other digits. “All number symbols are abstractions, functioning as ...

A study of middle-aged adults finds that walking the dog or doing household chores is enough activity to save your brain ...

The Mathematical Mind Offers Neuroscientists a Master Class in Concentration Expertise bulks up the brain’s ability to think ...

But it’s still standing. It’s firm. It’s a symbol not of despair but of hope.” The center, which provides critical support to ...

A new online optical illusion challenges viewers to find the one symbol that doesn't belong among a set of nearly identical ones. The puzzle, featuring interlocked circles and crosses, tests ...

Nearly 7 million people live with dementia in America today… …And this is expected to more than double by the year 2050 due ...

Using a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) device, which is widely used to treat depression and other mental illnesses safely, researchers were able to target a key brain network that is ...

The anatomy of the brain involves key regions including the brain stem, cerebellum, lobes of the cerebral cortex, and specific glands (the pituitary, for example) needed to maintain life and health.

Neuroscience helps show why the concept of zero took (takes!) so long to take hold, both for deep thinkers and for children's developing minds.

Beneath the human brain's bulging cerebral cortex, smaller structures toil in relative obscurity. Subcortical areas, also known as the 'deep brain,' play key roles in functions like attention, emotion ...

A brain tumor can be diagnosed using imaging tests that view the structure of the brain, along with a biopsy, which can carefully assess a sample of a suspected brain tumor under a microscope.

So, there are a lot of unknowns (no doubt fueling partisan bickering), but we do know an incredible amount about the brain and how it develops (and, shall we say, unravels) throughout life.