You love from the depths of your ventral tegmental area, your hypothalamus, your nucleus accumbens, and other vital areas of the brain. In the last two decades, scientists have joined the throngs of ...

Want to do more? It turns out there are additional actions to boost your brain’s functioning and protect it from decline. Experts say establishing good habits as young as possible — even in ...

Using a computer model of the basal ganglia and thalamus, researchers showed that holding too much information at once confuses the brain, impairing its ability to learn and use stored data ...

A new artificial intelligence model measures how fast a patient's brain is aging and could be a powerful new tool for understanding, preventing and treating cognitive decline and dementia.

The parasite infested his brain, putting him into a coma for more than a year and leaving him paralysed. He died in 2018 at the age of 29. People have got infected by eating raw or undercooked ...

"This study helps strengthen the case for walnuts as brain food. A handful of walnuts with breakfast could give young adults a mental edge when they need to perform at the top of their game," said ...

moment for more than a century, and it is finally within our grasp. We now know where it happens in the brain and when it’s more likely to happen. And we’re discovering some surprising ...

State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, PR China ...

That has made many people, including scientists, wonder: what are the differences between a dolphin brain vs human brain? These brains are very different in some ways but also similar in others. We’re ...