Across the globe, more than a billion people live with obesity. It's not just a matter of weight—it's tied to serious health ...

Why your brain craves chaos after a breakup—exploring the science behind wild post-breakup decisions and how they aid ...

Xiaowei Gu and Joshua Johansen at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered key circuitry in the rat brain ...

Researchers identified two brain networks involved in word retrieval -- the cognitive process of accessing words we need to speak. A semantic network processes meaning in middle/inferior frontal gyri, ...

The human brain is known to contain a wide range of cell types, which have different roles and functions. The processes via ...

Research reveals how the brain divides visual input between hemispheres, then seamlessly reconnects it to create a unified, ...

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

A large-scale scientific collaboration has compared two major theories about consciousness. The study, published in Nature, ...

Objectives To investigate the effects of overwork on brain structure to better understand its impact on workers’ cognitive ...

That’s a mom. Until pretty recently, few scientists, especially in cutting-edge fields like neuroscience, were curious about the inner happenings of the two billion or so human moms patrolling ...