Teaching young people how to play music and create art can have lasting benefits for the brain.

Do you ever wonder why it is so hard to learn something new? It's due in part to heavy cognitive load. Learn more in this Roundup.

Lisa Brenner, an associate professor at the University of Colorado, talks about traumatic brain injury in military personnel and symptoms that many people experience when they've had a head injury.

Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist at Emory University, and his team are training dogs to hop into an MRI scanner to better understand how the dog mind works.

This article provides some tools to help your students with self-directed learning.

Research using ferrets is providing a window into brain development that could lead to insights into conditions from autism to brain injury.

Scientists studying olfaction have learned how our sense of smell works and discovered that it might be more sophisticated than previously thought.

Studying brain evolution sheds light on the unique features of the human brain.

Learn about the brain through articles, maps, activities, and more, with this resource for teachers and students.

This online book introduces neuroscience chapter by chapter. Available online and in several languages, the book covers basic topics such as neurons, chemical neurotransmission, and vision, as well as the immune system, dyslexia, stress, and neuroethics.