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

Now, new evidence from brain imaging research shows that these flashes of insight aren't just satisfying—they actually reshape how your brain represents information, and help sear it into memory.

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 ...

Concussion patients can develop persistent, sometimes severe symptoms as a result of their head injury, but traditional tests often fail to identify which patients are most at-risk. Now, a group ...

“Our test identifies very early stages of tau tangle formation — up to a decade before any tau clumps can show up on a brain scan,” said senior study author Thomas Karikari, an assistant ...

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 ...

At the moment, diagnosis of diseases such as dementia normally relies on questionnaires which show memory problems combined with MRI scans, which can show loss of brain volume. However ...

A 10-minute brain scan can predict the effectiveness of a risky spinal surgery to alleviate intractable pain. The Kobe University result gives doctors a much-needed biomarker to discuss with ...

Now, new evidence from brain imaging research shows that these flashes of insight aren’t just satisfying — they actually reshape how your brain represents information, and help sear it into memory.