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.

The spontaneous behavior helps both the speaker and the listener.

Like a gardener trimming the excess branches of a tree, synaptic pruning clears away unneeded connections between neurons.

Surges of different neurotransmitters give rise to the emotional whirlwind that characterizes the early stages of romantic relationships.

Learn how your brain creates dreams while you sleep.

Explores one process by which sleep is thought to play a role in properly regulating synapses — the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis.

This video explains the science behind visual illusions.

Recording brain signals can help guide treatments following a stroke.

This video shows how the right-and-left-brained belief came to be and why it is a myth.

Neuroscientists are learning how our brains process poetry and how poetry can change the way we learn about neuroscience.