These brain regions in the cortex that carry out more advanced functions appear to represent much more complex states, ...

A month-long study of a man's brain revealed that its volume consistently shrunk over the course of each day and then reset ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the brain throughout the pregnancy timeline, from pre-conception to postpartum.

Researchers have used a drug screening platform they developed to show that an antidepressant, currently on the market, kills tumor cells in the dreaded glioblastoma -- at least in the cell-culture ...

When I was a small boy, I was adopted. Many years later, I went in search of my biological family, but for my sister Betsy it ...

Signals in our brain are not always processed in the same way: certain receptors modulate these mechanisms, influencing our mood, perception, and behavior in various ways. One of these is the 5-HT2A ...

Researchers from John's Hopkins University published a paper with a test that contradicts what many people thought about how ...

American neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander revealed what he experienced 'in heaven' while in a medically-induced coma as he ...

Sophie Schweinitzer, MSc, is a PhD student at the Vienna University of Technology in the Cell Chip Group, which is focused on ...

A cheap and widely available antidepressant has shown to be “unexpectedly effective” in treating aggressive brain tumours, ...

Others strategize their way through a sudoku grid or work out a word search not necessarily because they enjoy it but because ...

The FDA approval given to Musk's start-up Neuralink allows for human testing. A look at how Blindsight works & Neuralink’s ...