A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory center, the hippocampus, ...

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and another that's involved in ...