Until now, the brain regions underlying laughter were not well understood, in part because it's hard to elicit genuine ...
A recent study suggests that triggering specific, sleep-like brain wave patterns in awake mice can provide the brain with the ...
A brain region at the base of the skull called the cerebellum ages unevenly, with some parts being more vulnerable to tissue ...
One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The ...
The spinal cord is the control cable that connects the brain to the rest of the body. If it is severed, people lose the ability to move their body below the site of the injury. But if it is only ...
Discover why scents are the brain's most powerful memory triggers and how a single smell can bring back moments from 20+ ...
The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The new ...
From regular exercise to social connection, these are the behaviors experts say can keep your brain sharp over time.