By analyzing brain activity in mice, they determined that a fat molecule called PIP2 acts as a brake on Piezo1. When brain ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

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A separate study also in 2018, this time conducted on mice, found exercising the lower extremities to be critical to brain ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

A new study explains why current brain theories fail to fully explain near-death experiences and consciousness.

For years, concussions were described as temporary disruptions in brain function that could not be seen on any medical test.

As AI-powered wearables gain popularity, neurologists explain what these devices can truly measure, why they cannot diagnose ...

Following a stint in space as short as a few weeks, astronauts can develop measurable changes in the very shape of their ...

New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this ...

There is no magical switch that turns on at age 25, or even 32 for that matter. Like your brain, you’re in a decades-long ...

In the first study of its kind, neuroscientists have shown the real-world benefits that sunlight gives the brain, beyond ...