The data were collected from people about to have surgery. They show that as anaesthesia takes hold, the interplay between ...

Where your body stores fat may matter just as much as how much you carry—especially for your brain. Using advanced MRI scans and data from nearly 26,000 people, researchers identified two surprising ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Procrastination, the tendency to unnecessarily delay or put off tasks even if this will have negative consequences, is a common behavior for many people. While occasionally delaying or putting off ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

An individual may become completely paralyzed because of any number of accidents that interfere with the functioning of the ...

For years, scientists have known that the aging brain tends to shrink, but they have struggled to explain why some people suddenly start forgetting names, appointments, or why they walked into a room.

What you eat isn’t just fuel,” says Amy Shapiro, RD. “It truly influences how your brain functions, ages, and feels.” ...

Machine learning decodes brain signals for paralysis recovery in just one second using sensors placed on scalp not inside ...