A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

A study led by researchers at the University of Camerino in Italy found that the fatty insulation protecting neurons can be harmed when we go without sleep, compromising our mental processing. Through ...

The study, published in Genomic Psychiatry, identified how stress hormones activate specific RNA molecules called long ...

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Climber Alex Honnold is set to scale one of the world's tallest buildings without any ropes or safety nets.

A preclinical study published in Nature has found evidence that the hippocampus, the brain region that stores memory, also ...

“To the best of our team's knowledge, this project represents the first time an Alabama medical center has examined deep brain stimulation for depression,” said Matthew Macaluso, D.O., director of the ...

The team’s research provides compelling evidence for the brain’s influence on physiology. A deeper understanding of this mind ...

Cambridge researchers have revealed a detailed picture of how the human brain grows from mid-pregnancy through the first ...

A groundbreaking Nature study from University College London reveals how gut immune cells (macrophages) help toxic proteins ...