The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

A new study shows that 20 minutes of cardio can trigger memory-linked brain waves in the hippocampus, offering the first direct evidence of this effect in humans.

The stress hormone cortisol disrupts the brain's navigational system. It impairs the function of the grid cells that play a ...

Neuracle Technologies’ invasive brain-computer interface has been given the greenlight in China for people with partial spinal cord injuries ...

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or potentially threatening. Via a process known as habituation, they gradually learn to ...

Persons under stress may have a harder time spatially orienting themselves. Researchers in Bochum have discovered why. The stress hormone cortisol disrupts the brain's navigational system. It impairs ...

Edited by Jeremy Nathans, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; received October 24, 2024; accepted June 2, 2025 ...

A growing body of research is converging on specific brain regions and networks that appear to generate conscious experience, from dreaming to waking awareness. Multiple independent lines of evidence ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

Researchers identify that the brain's sensory checkpoint (TRN) undergoes a molecular "upgrade" in adulthood for high-resolution perception.

Normal aging leads to regional vascular and neural alterations. Age-related impairments in neurovascular coupling (NVC) affect the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) hemodynamic response function ...