The human body is an assemblage of systems that have a surprising degree of autonomy, and are all busy managing various aspects of our mental and physical lives. Nonetheless, they do communicate with ...

Scientists exploring how the brain responds to stress discovered molecular changes that can influence behavior long after an ...

For decades, neurology treated the brain like a black box, nudging it with drugs and hoping symptoms would ease. Now ...

One reason that chronic pain, mental or physical is consistently solvable is the brain’s property of neuroplasticity. Your brain physically constantly changes based on the nature of the sensory input.

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

Grasping how our brains function is anything but straightforward - yet understanding how our grey matter operates can be crucial to making the most of life. There's plenty of contradictory advice out ...

PHOENIX -- Medication has long been the cornerstone of treatment for people with epilepsy, but it doesn't stop seizures for everyone and may come with significant side effects. New options in use or ...

Scientists have used a specially engineered virus to help track the brain changes caused by psilocybin in mice, revealing how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. Neuroscientists tell us that “Brain Rot” is becoming a trend ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

Medication has long been the cornerstone of treatment for people with epilepsy, but it doesn't stop seizures for everyone and may come with significant side effects. New options in use or under ...