What happens inside your brain when you hear a steady rhythm or musical tone? According to a new study, your brain doesn't just hear it -- it reorganizes itself in real time.

The venous system maintains the health of our brains by removing deoxygenated blood and other waste products, but its ...

The brain's complexity stems from evolutionary layering—new functions built atop ancient foundations, resulting in a tangled ...

Astrocytes, once thought to be the brain’s housekeepers, may actually be silent powerhouses of memory.

You've probably heard the claim that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile. It's usually framed as a feel-good reason ...

The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain ...

Researchers have identified a remarkably small but critical piece of genetic code that helps determine how brain cells connect, communicate, and function. The discovery not only deepens our ...

New studies stemming from the Armamentarium consortium outline findings that advance tools based on Adeno-associated virus ...

Synchron, which was founded in 2016 by neurologist Dr. Tom Oxley, is a biomedicine outfit that's exploring an endovascular approach to connecting devices to the human brain. The startup ...

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh exposed small pieces of healthy human brain tissue to amyloid beta proteins, both in their normal and toxic forms. The tissue, collected with patient ...

What happens in the brains of these insects during sleep turns out to be not so different from what occurs in the human brain when we sleep. In other words, sleep appears to carry the same ...

Researchers have revealed how a toxic form of the amyloid beta protein damages the crucial synaptic connections between brain cells. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com Live human brain ...