Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers ...

Maybe those funny videos are the best medicine. New research suggests that laughter can improve short-term memory in older adults. Getty Images April 20, 2014— -- Ever have trouble remembering ...

Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute found that rotating waves of brain activity help restore focus after distractions. In ...

What if the key to being a better manager isn’t found in a new productivity hack, a different feedback framework, or a time management app—but in understanding the three-pound organ inside your head ...

Despite all the attention on technologies that reduce the hands-on role of humans at work — such as self-driving vehicles, robot workers, artificial intelligence, and so on — researchers in the field ...

Peer reviewers hail study offering framework to decode disorders like autism and schizophrenia, where neural communication breaks down "If you wish to prosper, build roads first," ran a popular slogan ...

New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information.

BraDiPho (Brain Dissection Photogrammetry) is an innovative tool for the study of white matter connections in the human brain ...

Now, a new neuroscientific study from MIT suggests a fascinating explanation. In short, when your attention vanishes after a ...

University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers have discovered a genetic biomarker that could help identify patients with glioblastoma most likely to benefit from the cancer drug bevacizumab.