When our thoughts drift away from the task at hand, our brains might actually become better at unconsciously picking up ...

We don't usually realize it, but every word we speak depends on a series of complex brain processes working behind the scenes ...

How complex neural circuits are genetically designed and wired is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Scientists have ...

Scientists use machine learning and SPERRFY to decode the genetic wiring map that guides neural connections across the entire ...

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...

As I enter deep middle age, parenting two teenagers, I find reading about brain development more interesting. The old-school view of becoming an adult at 18 (or 21) seems simple. The more recent ...

Inside a deep brain stimulation program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), researchers have discovered a brain signal that predicts when a child is about to lose attention—and that a brief, ...