A starry sky can be stunning—even inside a hospital emergency room.

Flashes of insight trigger activity in the brain’s hippocampus. This cashew-shaped structure is buried deep within the brain’s temporal lobe, and plays a major role in both learning and memory. The ...

A SPECT scan involves 3-D scans of the patient’s brain that look at blood flow and activity, followed by a custom treatment plan. Matt Fiorenza is a retired firefighter-paramedic who spent 22 ...

A small new study shows reactions in the brain in people who were given psilocybin in a controlled setting. By Andrew Jacobs If you had to come up with a groovy visualization of the human brain on ...