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The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small.

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The existence of specialised structures that allow a continuous exchange of CSF between different anatomical compartments at ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study.

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language-processing ...

Nearly 100 neurology experts collaborated on the creation of a new method of evaluating patients with traumatic brain ...

The wealth of information provided by our senses that allows our brain to navigate the world around us is remarkable. Touch, ...

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony ...

Led by neuroscientists Elizabeth Rizor and Viktoriya Babenko of the University of California Santa Barbara, a team of ...

The S-shape pose has the head and hips turned in different directions, which draws attention to body curvatures. Schuessler ...

Language processing in humans depends on the neuronal connection between language areas in the brain. Until recently, this ...