New research suggests the brain may stay active moments after the heart stops, triggering life recall and calm sensations ...

As emotions rise and fall in everyday life, your brain keeps up, constantly adjusting. These transitions between feelings—like joy, sadness, or fear—aren’t just random reactions. They’re part of a ...

On Monday, Jan. 12, findings published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) revealed that ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

Anxiety is a mental health condition millions of people around the world experience every day but not something that can necessarily be “seen”—until now. In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists at ...

Your behavior today could affect your brain activity in two weeks' time, new research suggests. These findings have significant implications for our mental health as well as our attention, cognition ...

Babies in financially stressed households show slower brain development, highlighting the importance of income stability ...