Somewhere inside the brain of a person who feels chronically disconnected, the architecture starts to look different. The ...

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In her new book, The 21st Century Brain, scientist Hannah Critchlow explores the overlooked skills that will be necessary to ...

When you take an allergy pill and feel foggy for the rest of the afternoon, you are experiencing a crude demonstration of ...

Scientists once viewed the thalamus largely as a relay station: a kind of biological switchboard routing sensory information ...

New Duke research helps to answer a long-standing question in neuroscience: Where, exactly, does learning first take place in ...

Eating too much junk food early in life may rewire the brain in ways that last into adulthood, even after switching to a ...

Penn State researchers found that abdominal muscle contractions during movement push cerebrospinal fluid through the brain, ...

A new scientific study challenges one of the most widely believed ideas about aging—and the findings could change how we ...

A new study suggests the APOE2 longevity gene may protect the brain from Alzheimer's by helping neurons repair DNA damage and ...

New research suggests pregnancy doesn’t impair the brain—it reshapes it, refining memory, attention, and emotional awareness ...

Melanoma can spread to many tissues in your body including your brain. Treatment for melanoma that has spread to the brain usually focuses on prolonging life and reducing symptoms. Melanoma is the ...