There are many ways that daily routines might actually help the cognitive brain. In an Instagram reel, neuroscientist Jules ...

From broad cheekbones and a flexible back to a small prefrontal cortex, here’s everything an anatomist thinks makes the ...

A small study shows cognitive improvements in patients with AD following treatment with an in-home gamma sensory stimulation ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes—think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke—is a ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes - think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke - ...

Neglect patients suffer pronounced spatially lateralized impairments, involving difficulties in perceiving and responding to items on the side of space opposite to the side of brain damage. So far, ...

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A new study suggests that the brain uses distinct neural pathways to process different aspects of personal well-being. The research indicates that evaluating family relationships activates specific ...

Alois Alzheimer first imaged amyloid plaques in 1906 by examining dead tissue under the microscope, but their clinical significance has remained undetermined. Now, nearly a century later, ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...