Young and his team first confirmed that the proteins play several key roles in ensuring that synaptic vesicles which contain ...

When John,* 43, first heard about Zyn from a friend a couple years ago, it struck him as a “much better alternative to chewing [tobacco],” he tells SELF, which he’d previously done on occasion to get ...

New research from University College London offers fresh insights into this puzzle. By mapping the development of ...

Viewing art is good for us, but new research may now tell us why — and that therapeutic uses may be better than previously ...

Throughout the course of their lives, humans are known to build social ties with various other individuals in their community ...

Telltale features visible in standard brain images can reveal how quickly a person is ageing, a study of more than 50,000 ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

This is an important study that combines replications of findings and novel detailed MRI investigations to assess the impact of environmental enrichment and maternal behavior on mice brain structure ...

Your brain and skin are interconnected—and when a disorder affects both, treatment must involve a multidisciplinary approach.

Using rare brain recordings from patients, scientists found that the thalamus helps trigger visual awareness. The study ...

Recent scientific evidence suggests consciousness is more than just a function of the brain and three theories have emerged ...