In today’s digital cultural environment, a region of the brain is overstimulated, contributing to overthinking and comparing ...

A gene mutation linked to schizophrenia may cause the brain to cling to outdated beliefs by disrupting a key decision-making circuit. Scientists were able to reverse this effect in mice, suggesting a ...

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Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and attention are wired. The same circuitry that helps you recognize a friend’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UCLA and UCSF map genes that control tau buildup, revealing a tau-tagging complex and a stress-linked tau fragment. (CREDIT: ...

Why do astronauts squeeze objects too hard? A new study explains how the brain's internal gravity model persists in space, ...

University of Utah Health experts are stressing the importance of good sleep for good brain health and overall wellness. Why ...

A study published in Nature Aging by teams at Stanford University and Nanyang Technological University followed 108 adults ...

Explore the neuroscience behind why the songs that defined your teenage years evoke stronger emotions than any new music, ...

In Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, a protein called tau can pile up inside brain cells and form toxic clumps. Those clumps help drive memory loss and other symptoms. Yet some neurons seem to ...