As people drift into sleep, their brains do not shut down all at once. Instead, different brain regions change their activity ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that an intensive retreat combining multiple mind-body ...

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 ...

Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature ...

Imagine that you have been hired by a car company and given the task of creating a new revolutionary electric car. The task comes with a peculiar twist: you must start with a T-Ford from 1908.

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

People with anxiety disorders have lower levels of choline in their brains, according to research from Health.

Studies in rodents and humans suggest that low levels of the metal contribute to cognitive decline. “This is groundbreaking,” says Ashley Bush, a neuroscientist at the University of Melbourne in ...