New research reveals negativity bias can cause brain abnormalities, reduced blood flow in key regions, and higher levels of depression, memory issues and poor stress regulation.

Researchers discovered that the microstructure of white matter tracts—the brain's information highways—at just 3 months of age could predict how infants' emotions and self-soothing abilities ...

Gene delivery systems can target specific brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Your brain burns fat during a marathon For his study, Matute and colleagues scanned the brains of 10 recreational runners using MRI before and after a marathon, and again two weeks to two months ...

Billy Joel has canceled the rest of his concert tour due to a brain condition. Joel, 76, has "normal pressure hydrocephalus," a type of fluid buildup in the brain.

Stellaris is available for PC and macOS via Steam and on PlayStation and Xbox consoles. The base game normally costs $39.99, but is currently on sale on Steam for 75% off through May 19th.

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up. Last November, Bradford G. Smith got a brain implant from Elon Musk’s company Neuralink ...

n 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework for ...

A cubic millimeter sounds tiny—to us, it is tiny—but a map of 200,000 brain cells represents just over a quarter of a percent of the mouse brain.

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist, I am always looking for the biological underpinnings of mental processes—not as an effort to distill mystery into molecules, but to ...

In the brain, estrogen can bind directly to receptors within neurons and other cells, setting off a cascade of actions. It can also be broken down into metabolites, called neurosteroids, which ...

From a cubic millimeter of tissue, scientists constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.