Research indicates that hormonal therapies and later menopause are associated with increased brain volume and thickness, ...

Research shows the brain during prayer activates social cognition networks, reduces stress, and builds measurable neural ...

Endogenous and exogenous lifetime exposure to ovarian hormones is associated with structural brain measures consistent with ...

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies developed independently for 50 years to restore sight and touch are functionally identical, establishing a unified framework that accelerates ...

Why does your inner world feel different? Scientists find the brain's "default mode network" shapes your own unique reality.

Our brain has the remarkable ability to anticipate upcoming events. A German research team has now discovered which ...

Scientists are studying what pregnancy does to the brain and how it does so, shedding light on a long-understudied area of neuroscience.

Ray Howell, a small-town Indiana doctor, was arrested in 2011, on charges of recklessly prescribing narcotics—often in exchange for sex. During the criminal proceedings, he was diagnosed with a rare ...

Much like camera settings—filters, flashes and focus—affect what we notice in a final photo, the way scientists measure ...

Researchers used PET imaging to track synaptic markers in sleep-deprived adults. They found increased neural connection ...

Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to reach the areas where they form neural circuits in the brain cortex. In a ...