Nagoya University researchers found that excessive neuronal activation, not decreased activity, drives age-related cognitive ...

The decoding of a brain region that distinguishes one face from another may offer clues to the very nature of consciousness, ...

Cognitively, some people also have a reasoning style that more quickly jumps to conclusions, Halassa said. People who are ...

A hidden phase of Alzheimer’s appears decades before symptoms, offering a chance for early detection and treatment.

"Many of them had feathers, [so] they could insulate themselves just like mammals can," Brusatte said. In addition, some ...

Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever-changing neuronal ...

Having secure, kind, and resilient children is a parent's ultimate dream. But when difficulties arise — how do we navigate ...

A teacher was walking in a forest with three of his students. They came upon a big boulder. The teacher stopped and he asked, “Do you think that boulder is heavy?” The students looked at each other, ...

Serotonin, a brain chemical widely recognized for its influence on mood and anxiety, has been found to operate in a ...

According to their findings, it's the same nerve cells in our brain that give us a feeling of being full after a meal that also make us crave sweet things.In the study, the researchers led by Henning ...

For young people, sex and sexuality are a mix of curiosity, experimentation, and sometimes sheer confusion. The Internet has ...

Nerve cells that tell us that we are full are the ones which also make us crave sweets, a new study found. Can this help us ...