At the start of this week, Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones star, spoke about her "remarkable" recovery following two brain aneurysms and a subarachnoid hemorrhage—a stroke caused by bleeding inside the ...

UCR scientists create a fully synthetic model for growing brain cells that could allow for animal-free drug testing.

The prefrontal cortex region of the human brain is responsible for a range of complex functions from decision-making to certain types of memory. When something goes wrong in this part of the brain, it ...

Brain activity is structured in space and time. The resulting activity patterns are conventionally thought to depend on an intricate web of anatomical connections that link specialized populations of ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain’s wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June ...

Your brainstem is the central apparatus of your entire nervous system. One portion of your brainstem is called the pons. The pons links your brain to your spinal cord. Your pons handles all of your ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that an intensive retreat combining multiple mind-body ...

As people drift into sleep, their brains do not shut down all at once. Instead, different brain regions change their activity ...

Harnessing the muscle of one of the world's fastest supercomputers, researchers have built one of the largest and most ...

Retired Army General Peter Chiarelli has endorsed the idea that post-traumatic stress disorder should be renamed post-traumatic stress injury to emphasize its putative organic basis. This proposal has ...