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Researchers have discovered a way to generate new human neurons from another type of adult cell found in our brains. The discovery is one step toward cell-based therapies for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Our fond or fearful memories leave memory traces that we may conjure up in the remembrance of things past with time, place and all the sensations of the experience. Neuroscientists call these traces memory engrams. Are engrams only conceptual, or are they a physical network of neurons in the brain?

Narcissists rise to the top. That’s because other people think their qualities—confidence, dominance, authority, and self-esteem—make them good leaders. Is that true? Research shows that the opposite seems to be true.

The Debunking Handbook, a guide to debunking misinformation. Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there's no summary of the literature that offers practical guidelines on the most effective ways of reducing the influence of myths.

A l’instar du cerveau, une équipe de chercheurs de l’Inserm et du CNRS dirigée par Patrice Mollard à l’Institut de génomique fonctionnelle vient de montrer pour la première fois une forme de mémoire dans le système endocrinien chez la souris.

Le groupe informatique américain dit avoir mis au point une puce dupliquant le fonctionnement du cerveau humain, qui pourra servir à construire des ordinateurs capables d'apprendre de leur propre expérience.

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio and novelist Siri Hustvedt plumb the nature of consciousness in a wide-ranging dialogue.

Join Scientific American 's contest to show why conscious humans best unconscious computers and win a recently authored book by renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch.

 Une des idées reçues au sujet des réseaux sociaux est qu’ils nuisent aux relations interhumaines. Une récente étude bat ces clichés en brèche en démontrant que les utilisateurs réguliers des réseaux sociaux ont davantage d’amis, font plus facilement confiance et sont plus engagés politiquement.

As web companies strive to tailor their services to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview.