Gordon and Jennifer Fothergill were at the Itasca County Fair in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, when Jennifer’s phone rang.

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Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced by cellular organelles called mitochondria. However, surprisingly ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new digital toolbox, the Network Correspondence Toolbox, has been developed to create a unified language for brain network studies, facilitating the comparison ...

Researchers have provided evidence that these genes contribute together to the evolutionary enlargement of the brain. Two specific genes that evolve exclusively in humans jointly influence the ...

Drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages each week could have a damaging effect on the brain, according to a new study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a poem could do…,” how poetry changes our brains, and what you might get out ...

And while running any distance has numerous health benefits, researchers warn that going the distance may not be so good for the brain – with the negative effects lingering for a month following ...