New research and theories suggest the brain may remain active near death, shaping visions, memories, and possibly our sense ...

The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that patients under ...

(Katlowitz et al., Nature, 2026, color adjusted) Our brains might be more alert when unconscious than we realized. A new study of brain cells in the hippocampus shows that people under general anesthe ...

My new study, however, shows that part of your brain increases in size with age rather than degenerating. The reason it's so hard to measure neurodegeneration is because of how complicated it is to ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images ) The ability to focus is not unique to humans or even to primates. Birds, ...