You know how you get a little snippy when you haven't eaten in a while? Maybe you snap at your partner or feel irrationally annoyed by someone chewing too loudly. Well, mice take the whole "hangry" concept to a place that would make even the hungriest among us pause. According to research from the...

We know that certain brain activity correlates with conscious experience. When you're awake and aware, certain things are happening neurologically. When you're under anesthesia, those things aren't happening. But here's the much harder question: what's actually enough to produce consciousness?...

Tumors are not the passive lumps we used to think they were. They actively recruit nerves, hijack neural signaling, and use your nervous system's own communication channels to fuel their growth and spread. A review in Military Medical Research compiles the evidence and suggests something that...

Your visual system has a memory problem. Well, not exactly a problem. More like a feature that sometimes acts like a problem. What you saw moments ago, seconds ago, or even minutes ago actively shapes what you're seeing right now. A study in eLife pulls together decades of scattered research to...

You know that feeling when you arrive somewhere and realize you have zero memory of the trip? You were physically present the entire time, eyes open, limbs moving, technically navigating. But your brain apparently decided to take a coffee break without telling you. A study in Cell Reports now shows...

Imagine slowly forgetting what "dog" means. Not the word itself. The actual concept. What a dog is. First, you can't come up with the name when you see one. Then all dogs start becoming "big cats" or just "animals." Eventually, you genuinely can't tell a dog from a chair. They're both just......

Memory neuroscience often focuses on brain regions. A review in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews shifts focus to representations - what information memories actually contain.

There's a counterintuitive truth in biology that "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" isn't just motivational poster nonsense. It's an actual thing. Mild stress, carefully dosed, can activate protective mechanisms that keep cells healthier longer. An insight in eLife looks at one particularly...

Modeling how the brain works at the whole-organ level is computationally expensive. We're talking "start the simulation, go get coffee, take a nap, maybe check back tomorrow" expensive. A study in Nature Communications shows that brain-inspired computing chips can speed up brain simulations by...

You've probably heard the brain-changing headlines: London taxi drivers have bigger hippocampi! Learning to juggle grows your gray matter! The implication is always that acquiring new skills literally builds new brain tissue, like adding rooms to a house.