In the new study, the team wanted to investigate whether screening movies during fMRI scanning could give any insight into how the brain’s functional networks respond to a series of complex audio and ...

A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brain to explain our awareness ...

The brainstem then sends signals to the hypothalamus, an almond-shaped structure deep inside the brain, that makes people feel full. The hypothalamus — the brain region that defends the set ...

Shortly after 2 a.m. on a Saturday in a midtown Manhattan sports bar packed with Aussies, Dr. Tom Oxley was feeling stunned.

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

Research reveals that kidney and nerve tissue cells can learn and form memories in ways similar to neurons. Our brains—and ...

Genes play a powerful role in shaping your health—you won’t believe how your DNA influences everything from ADHD to Parkinson’s disease. Here’s what groundbreaking research reveals about ...

Researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of Bourgogne in France have recently conducted a study that provides new information on how this virus spreads inside the brain.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that “cognitive degeneration” may be to blame for some of Donald Trump’s more deranged comments at his rally in Pennsylvania Sunday. During an ...

The planning and memory processes needed for this behaviour are fulfilled by the assemblies of neurons inside the mushroom ... degrees of conservation in brain anatomy and evolution, but then ...

For the study, researchers analyzed data from functional MRI brain scans taken of 176 young people as they watched an hour’s ...

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi joins for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of the presidential race, Trump's violent ...