Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What would it feel like to be a brain in a vat? If you had no body and no world in which to ground yourself, could you be ...

What would it feel like to be a brain in a vat? If you had no body and no world in which to ground yourself, could you be conscious of anything at all? Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated ...

When brain development gets off to a bad start, the consequences are lifelong. One example is a condition called SCN2A haploinsufficiency, in which children are born with just one functioning copy of ...

Scientists are reporting the first compelling evidence in people that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines with age. A 10-week study of people 65 or older ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom. Brain organoids, which ...

Very thought provoking. It’s hard to answer the question without more experimentation. Brains seem to be as intrinsically excitable media that will naturally exhibit space-temporal waves. What have we ...

The term “multitasking” can refer to a wide range of things. It can be truly simultaneous, like texting or answering emails ...

With the Obama administration planning a major initiative to map the brain, there’s more attention focused on what all of that new information will mean for how we see ourselves and how we take moral ...