The brain is a highly complex part of the body. Rather than being a unified organ, the anatomy of the brain might surprise you because it's divided into sectors that each have their own distinct ...

Before you dismiss daydreaming as a distraction or a sign of “spacey” thinking, we have news for you: there is a counterintuitive brain hack called strategic daydreaming. This intentional practice of ...

Placebo effects, in which patients experience relief without therapeutic treatment, increasingly have been considered as potentially powerful clinical treatments for ailments such as depression and ...

If you’re craving more focus, mental balance, energy, or restorative sleep, something called the vagus nerve could be the culprit. This long wire connects your brain to many major organs and helps ...

Today, paraplegics can move robotic limbs using only their thoughts. But when it comes to our understanding of how the brain works, we still have a long way to go. Meet the scientists attempting to ...

Masamune Shirow wrote his Ghost in the Shell manga in 1989 as a thought experiment about three technologies that did not yet exist: a brain implant networked to the internet and open to remote attack, ...