Neuroscience

"Hidden Brain" host Shankar Vedantam discusses his new book on "St. Louis on the Air."

When Washington University neurosurgeons Albert Kim and Eric Leuthardt aren’t teaching, researching or performing surgery, they often think of creative…

The early development of the human brain begins in utero and continues into a person’s early-to-mid-20s. In that time, various environmental factors such…

Halloween is here, and many are turning to their favorite horror films for an additional fright this season.Despite the popularity of horror movies – and…

The brain is crucial to everything we do – yet so little is known about it. The complexity of the human brain is of constant interest to Albert Kim and…

At an experimental mine at the Missouri University of S&T in Rolla, scientists are setting off explosives around lab mice and cell cultures to study how…

A mind-controlled robotic glove under development by Washington University scientists could give hope to those whose hands have become paralyzed due to a…

In 1962, a strange epidemic swept through several communities in Tanganyika, present-day Tanzania. It wasn’t a virus, but laughter among teenage…

In the late 1990s, before Sandra Langeslag began attending college, she was dumped. Then a few months later, she fell in love again.“I was very curious. I…

Many people could construe the tagline of Malcolm Gay’s recent book, “The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines,” as a…