Federal funding for cognitive research in the late 1970s and early 1980s unexpectedly led to significant advancements in ...

A new neuroimaging marker of cerebral small vessel disease is related to general cognition and may serve to identify persons ...

Scientists are piecing together the brain processes that underlie the wide-eyed wanting-to-know we generally think of as ...

Researchers find that people anticipate movement in visual stimuli, among other new findings of our visuospatial abilities.

Trajectories of frailty increased more rapidly 4 to 9 years before dementia onset. Even before this acceleration, higher ...

A new neuroimaging marker of cerebral small vessel disease is related to general cognition and may serve to identify persons ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

During ritual ceremonies, the ancient Aztec civilization used a “death whistle” — a haunting instrument shaped like a human ...

Alzheimer's disease—the most common form of dementia—is a progressive neurological disorder that causes brain cells to ...

A team of scientists at HSE University, in collaboration with the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of ...

A recent study uncovers molecular mechanisms driving memory formation in the hippocampus, focusing on mossy fiber synapses.