This suggests they may interfere with the brain’s ability to flush out toxins. It is too soon to tell whether these results ...

Share spooky thrills with a boy whose horrible nightmares have a bad habit of coming true, take a close-up look at the ...

The Teutonic overthinker’s latest documentary reveals more about his strange mind than the brain writ large. Thank you for ...

Among the marvels of the human brain is its ability to generalize. We see an object, like a chair, and we know it's a chair, even when it's a slightly different shape, or it's found in an unexpected ...

Sex differences in brain structure are present from birth, research from the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge has shown.

OCD is more than a need to have things tidy and neat. It is an intrusive loop of thoughts and compulsive behaviors that those who suffer from it live with.

To that end, a new study by UB researchers has identified 11 genes that may hold the key to understanding the brain's ...

Researchers have discovered a way to control human body temperature, mimicking the hibernation process of animals like bears.

Scientists have discovered how brain circuits affected by stress can predict resilience in mice. By stimulating certain ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered a surprising truth about the speed of human thought: our ...

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we ...

The brain plays a big part in the aging process, and scientists think they’ve pinpointed the specific cells that control it.