The smallest grooves on the brain's surface, unique to humans, have largely been ignored by anatomists, but recent studies show that they're related to cognitive performance, including face ...

Human brains are great at sorting through a barrage of sensory information—like discerning the smell of tomato sauce upon ...

Whenever something bad happens to us, brain systems responsible for mediating emotions kick in to prevent it from happening again. When we get stung by a wasp, the association between pain and wasps ...

This study presents valuable findings on the patterned loss of Purkinje cells in the mouse cerebellum during aging. Convincing evidence shows that Purkinje cell loss with aging occurs in a pattern of ...

I was riding high as a music journalist with a new book in the shops when I had what I thought was a migraine. In fact, it ...

May 15, 2025) Discoveries announced today by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital provide a scientific rationale for the targeted ...

Researchers find mutations causing developmental disabilities in humans have similar effects in yeast, aiding drug testing ...

Tesla sure has a thing for random-seeming codenames for its models. The Model 3 sedan revised last year, for example, carried the internal designation "Highland." For the 3's SUV sibling ...

Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a novel artificial intelligence model inspired by neural oscillations in the brain, with the goal ...

When getting ready to take exams, it can sometimes feel as though there's no way all the information you need to remember is going to fit in your brain. But there are ways to create the right ...

Michael Bolton has glioblastoma, a treatment-resistant brain cancer that was behind the emergency surgery he had 16 months ago. After that surgery, during which a tumor was removed in its entirety ...