Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered a mechanism that could explain how exercise improves cognition by shoring up ...

Researchers have crossed a threshold that once belonged squarely to science fiction: they have built working models of brains, both in silicon and in living tissue, that can learn, adapt, and even ...

The sensation of profound depletion following a day of intense mental labor has long been dismissed as a subjective ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A global team has built single-cell maps of brain activity across the day in mice, uncovering shifting networks that track fatigue ...

A new international study points to a specific brain network as the core driver of Parkinson’s disease. Scientists found that ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

New sensory nutrition research reveals how bitter foods like dark chocolate may sharpen memory and attention through taste-triggered brain activation.

The team of researchers led by Prof. Kristian Franze found that increasing tissue stiffness induces the expression of chemical signals that are typically absent in those regions. Semaphorin 3A is one ...

One of the defining features of human evolution is the steady expansion of our brains. New findings suggest this growth may be partly linked to higher levels of estrogen before birth. Surprisingly, a ...

An “extraordinary” brain network discovery shows that Parkinson’s disease may not be a movement disorder after all ...