Elite athletes such as Steph Curry use deep breathing to calm their mind and reach peak performance. The practice can also ...

Scientists have long struggled to define brain fog—let alone pinpoint a cause for it. But research is starting to reveal multiple potential causes from inflammation to a leaky blood-brain barrier.

Our lives are filled with binary decisions – choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

A new study sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) ...

Our lives are filled with binary decisions—choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

Time-series transcriptomic analysis investigates sex differences in human fetal brain development between 7.5 and 17 weeks post conception. Brain-specific Stk24 deletion in mice disrupts ...

It could be a fun way to explore your body and sexual preferences, and may even have positive brain benefits. Research shows that sexual activities like masturbation involve many different parts ...

The human digestive system refers to the organs that take in food and break them down. Digestion describes the complex process that enables the nutrients in food to enter the body and its cells ...

In the CNS, NO is involved in many processes ... in the life sciences was finally underscored when the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to Robert Furchgott, Louis Ignarro ...

Heavy drinking is associated with increased risk of a type of brain injury linked with memory and thinking problems. That’s according to a new study in which researchers defined heavy drinking ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 ...