Babies with congenital heart disease have altered brain activity in regions involved in movement and emotions, but heart surgery restored these brain networks to healthy connectivity.

Sickle cell disease is often thought of solely as a blood disorder, but new research from the Wood Neuro Research Group ...

A study published in Nature Communications in January 2026 found that general intelligence does not reside in any single ...

The human brain can concurrently support a wide range of advanced mental functions, including attention, memory and the processing of sensory stimuli. While past neuroscience studies have gathered ...

There is a natural decline in sociability as a result of aging influenced by brain changes, new research shows. “Our study suggests that age-related changes in the functional wiring of the brain may ...

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?

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...

Scientists discover that sickle cell disease forces the brain to recruit extra "attention backup" to maintain normal cognitive function.

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

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 ...