The human brain is constantly taking in information about the world through sight, touch, hearing and the other senses.
Scientists have discovered that a tiny midbrain structure anticipates visual and physical sensations before ...
The gut-brain axis is a two-way biochemical hotline, with messages zipping back and forth all day long. When the gut is ...
A September 18 report from the New York Post highlighted a familiar childhood pastime that researchers have connected with ...
The whole world shares rules for infectious disease control, and 'wearing a mask when going to the hospital' has become a ...
Neuroimaging shows that reading books you enjoy reshapes brain architecture and strengthens cognitive reserve across a ...
What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...
The brain's network of blood vessels plays a critical role in maintaining neurological health. Changes to these vessels are ...
What if the brain evolved to serve the gut? Scientists at Flinders University are challenging a cornerstone of biology, ...
Ever wonder what goes on inside the brain of a worm—how it processes information, responds to stimuli and perceives the world ...
Even under general anesthesia, the human brain can analyze language, recognize different types of words, and predict what comes next in a story, according to a surprising discovery by Baylor ...
Brain scans of more than 1,600 young people suggest that the fine-grained tissue structure of the amygdala, hippocampus, and ...