A research team has identified, for the first time in humans, and in a realistic environment, a key neurophysiological ...

A new study explored how the hippocampus and insula interact during the encoding of emotional memories in humans.

As the days grow shorter, many animals prepare for the approaching winter by suspending reproduction. Insects, for example, accumulate energy stores while halting ovarian development through a process ...

The authors proposed two hypotheses: first, that methamphetamine induces neuroinflammation, and second, that it alters neuronal stem cell differentiation. These are valuable hypotheses, and the ...

Your brain replays awkward moments not to punish you, but to protect you—it's just doing what evolution trained it to do.

Recently, the team led by Chief Physician Quan Zhang and Associate Professor Feng Liu at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital systematically evaluated the genetic associations between type 2 ...

A new study reveals that neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. A ...

In recent years, some scientists and advocates have warned that playing contact sports like football and hockey may increase ...

Every day, our brain takes countless fleeting experiences - from walks on the beach to presentations at work - and transforms ...

Scientists at UCSF combined advanced brain-network modeling, genetics, and imaging to reveal how tau protein travels through ...

New research shows how the brain replays and organizes memories, even compressing long experiences into short, fixed-length ...

Findings suggest that Alzheimer’s risk genes drive tau buildup and spread through both network-based and independent mechanisms.