News: Neuroscience

The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe, but as scientists are learning, it offers five important clues for understanding its wonders.

Michael Mauk is working on a "digital cerebellum" that mimics the part of the brain that helps us keep from falling. It could help make...

The brains of people experiencing alcohol addiction have different patterns of gene expression than those without addiction. Could this lead to a new kind of...

The Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award is the Board of Regents’ highest honor.

Nace Golding, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Austin, and his team were surprised to find that serotonin also regulates the sensitivity of...

New research shows how we use a special brain wave frequency when we think about past or future events to play them in fast forward.

Laura Colgin studies the relationship between brain waves and memory during sleep.

Your brain has to do all sorts of tricks to focus on just one voice floating in a sea of noise, including localization

With summer movie season in full swing, cinema-goers are leaving theaters with one big question in mind: “Wait, could that really happen?”

Experts at UT Austin share what science says about how students can stay sharp during busy times.