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Neuroscientists at the Allen Institute and the University of North Carolina are working to crack the biology of reward and addiction. Hear about their...

Neuroscientist Z Yan Wang investigated how social isolation impacted young bumblebees, and it looks like they grow up to be a little ‘socially...

Can we put a number on human consciousness?

Scientists have known for centuries that the brain is the seat of human thought, but we’re still in the dark about how it works.

Researchers are in the early stages of investigating the brain cells most vulnerable to this devastating form of dementia