Apps that train cognitive skills claim to help children learn, and some research backs that up. But there are concerns cognitive training hinders reading development.

Relating brain activity to behavior is an ongoing aim of neuroimaging research as it would help scientists understand how the brain begets behavior — and perhaps open new opportunities for ...

The onset of psychosis can be predicted before it occurs, using a machine-learning tool which can classify MRI brain scans into those who are healthy and those at risk of a psychotic episode.

Dopamine signals in the brain were already understood to form reward prediction errors (RPE), where they signal to the animal whether an actual outcome is better or worse than expected.

A new research from the Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience of the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary suggests that long-range inhibitory parvalbumin-expressing basal ...