Discovery of Brain-Body Connection Offers Clues for Parkinson’s and Alcohol Use Disorder When danger lurks, instinct keeps us ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers have mapped how different parts of the brain work together. Specifically, they ...

Scientists from the Nencki Institute and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have revealed a key mechanism in how our brains change when we learn new information or form memories. A new ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

The screen worked, flagging expected cancer genes. But it also kept returning something that seemed impossible: genes for synapses, glutamate receptors, and neural signaling pathways. “We absolutely ...

It may interest you: You will already be able to understand your tenderloin! This collar translates your dog's barking using artificial intelligence Congrats to John Simeral et al. on their exciting ...

You’re lying on a hospital gurney, waiting for the anaesthesiologist to send you under so you can be taken into theatre and the operation can begin. Naturally, you’re nervous. But mixed with the quiet ...