When a surprising experience contradicts our expectations, our brains can quickly adapt to the new circumstances and make decisions accordingly thanks to the anterior cingulate cortex.

Reading regularly can improve language, memory, and reasoning skills by strengthening brain areas responsible for these processes.

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter with a unique life cycle and method of transportation across neurons.

Help your students create videos about the brain and nervous system.

Biomarkers can help doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s earlier, giving patients more time to pursue interventions to slow disease progression.

Artificial intelligence can guess what you’re thinking — but only if it has been trained using your own brain activity data.

Sunlight informs your circadian rhythm and trains you to sleep at night. Your cell phone light can throw this off balance and damage your sleep habits.

Scientists can use electric impulses to block pain signals in patients who struggle with chronic pain or treat certain neurological conditions.

Some brain signals once thought to be "noise" actually encode useful information. Lessons from the physics of flow encourage us to reconsider these unpredictable signals and now scientists are finding uses for them in medicine.

Reality flows continuously but we perceive it as a series of events — why? One theory suggests we structure our experiences from our subconscious predictions of ongoing events. These predictions are compared to reality — leading us to create distinct boundaries as expectations and events change.