Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

The race to understand the brain has just crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction. Using one of the world’s ...

For decades, biologists treated a familiar marine invertebrate as a kind of living afterthought, a translucent tube that ...

Representing Variables: In algebra, the gray unit can also represent a variable, such as 'x' or 'y'. In this case, the size ...

Pain is a constant, complex companion that clinicians often struggle to understand and measure for people living with sickle ...

Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by variants in the SLC7A7 gene, leading to impaired transport of dibasic amino acids across intestinal and renal membranes ...

Cells in the brain's immune system can act as "accelerators" and "brakes" for anxiety, opening the door to new treatments for ...

A cat owner from Vermont has left internet users puzzled after sharing a picture of her rag-doll cat sleeping in an odd position that many still struggle to understand. The cat's owner, Kyra Wilson, ...

Background and Purpose— Acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a common and severe form of stroke. To date, medical management of ICH has had scant impact on morbidity and mortality. Because albumin ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, ...