While scientists are learning how important emotional input is to nearly every aspect of cognition, behavior, and disease, understanding how that works is a tangled puzzle.

Hormones help to physically shape the brain during adolescence and beyond.

How viruses like Zika disturb fetal brain development is a long-standing mystery.

Scientists explore how brief interruptions in blood flow can make the brain more resilient to a second insult.

Basic neuroscience research in animal models is essential to understanding brain function and the thousands of brain diseases and disorders that affect both humans and animals. Treatments for stroke, depression, and drug addiction are just a few examples of developments made by this research. Learn more.

With a number of brain training games being tested in research labs and others already on the market, important ethical questions remain: Do they work? Are there any risks? Neuroscientist Martha Farah addresses these and other questions.

The cocktail of hormones produced during adolescence contributes to some of the dramatic brain changes underway.

Most people communicate everyday through language, so how does it work?

Whenever we explore a new city, walk in the dark, or travel a well-worn path, we rely on a network of specialized neurons deep within our brains to generate and maintain a cognitive map of our world.

The scientist discusses his shocking research with electric fish.