New nanomaterial passes the blood-brain barrier to reduce damaging inflammation after the most common form of stroke. When ...

The animal kingdom is full of fascinating tricks for enduring sub-freezing temperatures. Birds, for example, often just take ...

Silksong came out last summer I was in so much pain that I didn’t know if I’d be able to play it. Could a video game teach me anything new about suffering?

Long before winter seals the forest under ice, certain frogs begin preparing for a transformation that defies basic biology.

Introduction Visual Hallucinations (VHs) (seeing things that others do not, or visions) are a common feature of psychosis, causing significant distress and disability. Services rarely ask about these ...

Researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are working on a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

Experts say the more we challenge our brains as we age, the more resilient it becomes—and “learning a new instrument is a full-brain workout.” After the age of 40, the average brain decreases 5 ...

New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this connection using a drug.