Neuroscience

People with PTSD feel like they're reliving past experiences in the present. This may be tied to how the brain processes memories of those experiences.

People with tinnitus may be wrongly classed as having "normal hearing" because standard tests don't detect the condition's true cause, a new study suggests.

The inability to remember your first few years of life is called infantile amnesia. But why does it happen?

The idea of treating neurological disorders by marshaling vast unused neural reserves is more wishful thinking than reality.

There might be an advantage to separating scent information from each nostril, a new study hints.

We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain.

Hair follicle cells sense touch and release chemicals that activate nearby neurons, scientists reveal.

A new map of 56,000 cells in the outer layer of the human brain could inform research into a whole class of diseases.

A study of 30 women with regular menstrual cycles suggests that the structure of the brain fluctuates in time with hormonal shifts.

Scientists have published a new atlas of a primate brain with single-cell resolution.