Conclusion Use your brain to imagine 'what to do' rather than understanding how it works Streamline risk assessment using ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

A research group from the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan has identified the neural pathways in the brain that influence thermoregulatory behaviors in rats. Thermoregulatory ...

What is happening in the brain when you are under hypnosis?You may have wondered about this at least once.You close your eyes ...

Researchers investigating how exactly the brain processes the incoming stream of information from the heart and lungs, discovered that specific neurons in the thalamus are actively involved in ...

Groundbreaking neurobiologist, Dr. Gina Turrigiano heads up the Turrigiano Lab in Brandeis University’s Biology Department. Dr. Turrigiano’s work focuses on brain plasticity. Our conversation covered ...

Scientists have shown how our brain's response to watching emotional and social stimuli in a movie changes between infancy and adulthood. The findings challenge the theory that perceptions of children ...

Imagine going to the orchestra and instead of a symphony, each musician plays solo, one movement at a time – a violinist during one piece, a cellist during the next, perhaps a clarinetist after that.

Dom Byrne is a freelance radio and podcast producer based in Brighton, UK. As a pharmacy student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Natasha Mason was struck by the high volume of patients who ...

After a stroke, even areas of the brain that are not directly impacted by the injury can show signs of accelerated aging.

I started researching different techniques to avoid total burnout and stay productive and focused over the long haul once I realized I had no energy, persistent anxiety, no ability to focus and felt ...

Comparison between human brain surface MRI reconstructions and ferret brain simulations for the cortical malformation polymicrogyria. A simple set of physical rules, including the relative thickness ...