Vedantam will take the Miller Theater stage in March for a live show exploring the psychology behind everyday decisions and ...

A subtle change in brain wave activity could predict Alzheimer's disease more than two years before diagnosis, according to a new study. The signal could prove to be a sensitive biomarker of cognitive ...

The brain’s wiring forms a unique fingerprint that reveals how we think, remember, and make decisions. A new study offers the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scientists, led by Onder Albayram, a neuroscientist at the Medical University of South Carolina, conducted MRI scans to track ...

To mark a decade of NPR’s Hidden Brain, WUFT Morning Edition host Glenn Richards spoke with Shankar Vedantam, host and executive producer of the podcast and radio show produced by Hidden Brain Media ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their outgoing signals). These whisper-quiet incoming messages are the release of ...

Scientists at Cedars-Sinai have uncovered a surprising repair system in the spinal cord that could open new doors for treating paralysis, stroke, and diseases like multiple sclerosis. They found that ...