Neural activity in the cortical amygdala determines whether mice engage in aggressive or pro-social behavior, according to a ...

Take a look around your home and you'll find yourself surrounded by familiar comforts—photos of family and friends on the ...

New study shows plastic accumulates in the brain, as well as other body parts. Scientists don't know what impact it has if ...

Although no single food can improve mental sharpness, focus, and memory, some research shows that a nutrient-rich diet with plenty of omega-3 fats, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals is important ...

These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one part of the body to another ... and sound. The brain interprets these sensory cues to understand what’s going ...

Personality changes can be a completely normal (if frustrating) part of parenting. In rare cases, they can be due to a brain tumor that’s affecting the cerebral cortex. If your child's mood swings or ...

A man with paralysis who had electrodes implanted in his brain can pilot a virtual drone through an obstacle course simply by imagining moving his fingers. His brain signals are interpreted by an ...

Parasitic infections can invade practically any part of the body. Brain parasites, those that infect the central nervous system which includes the brain, are potentially the most damaging and the most ...

He was also found to have part of his brain missing due to a cyst as well, much to the shock of his parents. Owen, now eight-years-old, struggles with mobility on his left hand side. I t means he ...

They removed a slaughterhouse pig’s brain from its head and deprived it of oxygen at room temperature for four hours. Then, they hooked it up to their resuscitation machine and revived it—to ...

In Han Kang’s novel “We Do Not Part,” newly translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, the narrator visits a friend who is in the hospital after severing the tips of ...