Experts make human volunteers face approaching pathogens in virtual reality and find that specific brain regions become ...

Long-term stress can drain the color out of everything-sweet drinks taste bland and friends feel like strangers. According to ...

When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains triggered an immune response. The brain activates ...

But two new studies published this week take a look at the brain’s so-called “sewage system,” uncovering more details about its mechanisms that could lead scientists to a new approach in ...

When parts of the nervous system start to break down—or get broken—the consequences for human health can be staggering. Can ...

Researchers have found a way to rejuvenate the glycocalyx, the “sugar shield” that bolsters the blood-brain barrier. Exciting ...

Here, the hidden system is the set of commands for co-ordinating muscles that make the up, down, and rotate movements. It seems unlikely that a single neuron knows any command.

And one thing is clear: The systems being touted as evidence that AGI is just around the corner do not work at all like the brain does. That may not be a fatal flaw, or even a flaw at all.

Taking it slowly The glymphatic system in the brain was discovered back in 2013 by Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, a Danish neuroscientist and a coauthor of Hauglund’s paper.

Yoga is one of the best exercises for healing trauma when practiced in its traditional form, combining breath with focused ...

A growing body of research shows that racism–in health systems and the effects of experiencing racial discrimination–contributes to these long-standing health disparities for Black communities.

Engineers at the University of Rochester aim to improve the efficiency of drones by mimicking the brain's visual systems to create AI tools that run on analog hardware for guiding autonomous systems.