Seemingly unrelated diseases and conditions like Alzheimer's disease, obesity, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, and ...

Scientists looking for the causes of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's generally focus on the ...

Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

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 ...

The largest analysis of psychedelic brain imaging to date offers a clearer picture of how psychedelic drugs affect the brain.

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...

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 ...

When it comes to physical fitness, most people over 50 ignore giving their brains a workout. Unfortunately, our daily ...

UCF researchers have uncovered evidence that some movement-related symptoms of Alzheimer's disease may originate outside the ...

What you eat at breakfast affects focus and memory, not just whether you eat. Foods like walnuts, blueberries, eggs, ...