Brain

Converging lines of research suggest that we might be misunderstanding something we do every night of our lives.

The pandemic destabilized us—and exposed the fractures in our country’s approach to mental health.

For the documentary “In Silico,” Noah Hutton set out to track the creation of a simulated brain. He ended up capturing a more complicated story.

As neural devices proliferate, so do reports of personality changes, foundering relationships, and people who want to leave their careers.

A new book argues that our inner critic can become our strongest guide.

From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces in which science and selfhood meet.

The discovery of brain structures that apparently mark time has raised a larger question: What is time, anyway?