Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan.

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Researchers have created a remarkable new map of a key part of our brain, the hypothalamus, that will lead to new ways of controlling our weight, appetite, sleep and stress levels. Health and wellness ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

The creation of a new protein atlas of the developing mouse brain could open new avenues of research on a wide range of neurological disorders.

is a major advance in neuronal recording and may help bring scientists a step closer to drawing a detailed synaptic connection map of the brain. Higher-order brain functions are believed to be ...

By delivering short pulses to individual electrodes in participants’ touch centers and having them report where and how strongly they felt each sensation, the researchers created detailed “maps” of ...

Certain drugs and a host of nonpharmacologic therapies are key to treating patients who have nociplastic pain, a relatively ...