Centuries after Leonardo watched a heart beat, a fresh answer is taking shape. A new wave of imaging, genetics, and computation shows that the fine mesh of muscle lining the heart—called ...

A brainstem region helps punctuate memories. Stress may block its ability to mark new experiences. Although life unfolds in a ...

The human brain builds mental representations of the world based on the signals and information detected via the human senses. While we perceive simultaneously occurring sensory stimuli as being ...

B vitamins are a group of vitamins. “Vitamin B refers to a group of eight water-soluble vitamins that include B1, B2, B3, B5, ...

Scientists combined genetics and fractal theory to analyze these branching heart structures.

Broca’s aphasia is essentially the inverse of Wernicke’s aphasia. These patients can understand language quite well, but have deficits in speech production. These patients are aware of their deficits, ...

A man in England thought he'd come down with the flu before receiving a devastating diagnosis and being told he could just ...

The controversy first emerged when Rani Kapur sent an e-mail to the board of Sona Comstar demanding the postponement of its ...

Observational and philosophical analysis continued to examine the brain, as well as the impact that thinking, exercises, and ...

In an exciting breakthrough, researchers have identified cancer drugs that might reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease ...

The brain's health depends on more than just its neurons. A complex network of blood vessels and immune cells acts as the ...