Neuroscience

In films, our memories can be recorded and downloaded. Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez weighs in on the real-life state of memory research.

What keeps you up at night? Is it your finances? Your job? Your health? Maybe you’re worried because you’re lying awake worrying. Well, don’t worry: it’s not all bad.

Scientists thought they knew how the human body worked. They thought they knew how the immune system worked. They were wrong. A recent discovery found a previously unknown path for the immune system into the brain.

A new movie is based on the premise — urban legend — that humans have huge reservoirs of untapped brain potential. But science says the reality is quite different.A new movie is based on the premise — urban legend — that humans have huge reservoirs of untapped brain potential. But science says the reality is quite different.

Researchers at Brown University are putting people to sleep — in the name of research. They’re trying to determine what people dream, and what it means, by subjecting people to MRI scans as they dream, and then waking them up and asking what they were dreaming about.