Young adults with high social anxiety show heightened activity in the brain's visual processing areas. These neural changes explain their high alertness to social threats and offer a physical marker ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is not only characterized by strongly encoded traumatic memories, but also by disrupted ...

The researchers also suggest, based on previous studies, that people with acute and chronic alcohol problems might see ...

For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been framed as a problem of a single patch of brain tissue that controls movement. New work suggests the condition may instead arise from a deeper, far-reaching ...

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

Neuroscientists propose a new theory of brain development where cells organize based on lineage rather than long-range signals.

Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremors and trouble walking. It can also affect sleep, smell, digestion and even thinking. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on new research suggesting that's because ...