neuroscience

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. The U.S. is in the midst of a l...

When Gina Arata was 22, she crashed her car on the way to a wedding shower. Arata spent 14 days in a...

If this year's turkey seems over brined, blame your brain. The question of when salty becomes too sa...

Scientists are one step closer to understanding the 170 billion brain cells that allow us to walk, t...

A team of researchers has developed a new way to study how genes may cause autism and other neurodev...

Composer Cliff Masterson knows how to make sorrow sublime. Take his regal, mournful adagio Beautiful...

If you've ever had trouble finding your keys or remembering what you had for breakfast, you know tha...

Dr. Josef Parvizi remembers meeting a man with epilepsy whose seizures were causing some very unusua...

Diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's are caused by toxic clumps of proteins that...

Back when my daughter was a toddler, I would make a joke about my phone: "It's a drug for her," I'd ...

In comic books and superhero films, we often see characters use extra mechanical limbs to transform ...

To make sense of difficult science, Michael Kofi Esson often turns to art. When he's struggling to u...

In most people, speech and language live in the brain's left hemisphere. Mora Leeb is not most peopl...

Scientists have created the first detailed wiring diagram of an insect brain. The brain, from a frui...

Pulses of electricity delivered to a precise location on the spinal cord have helped two stroke pati...

When Tom's epileptic seizures could no longer be controlled with drugs, he started considering surge...

Time is woven into our personal memories. Recall a childhood fall from a bike and the brain replays ...

Arts therapies appear to ease a host of brain disorders from Parkinson's to PTSD. But these treatmen...

An idea that has propelled Alzheimer's research for more than 30 years is approaching its day of rec...

A dish of living brain cells has learned to play the 1970s arcade game Pong. About 800,000 cells lin...