A new neuroimaging study suggests that people who frequently control their dreams share distinct structural brain patterns. These networks bridge the areas responsible for self-reflection, visual ...

Human navigation turns out to be less like following a static map and more like tuning a control knob inside the brain. New imaging work suggests that deep in the hippocampus, a seahorse-shaped ...

When teenagers shift their sleep schedules between school days and weekends, the resulting mismatch can alter the physical ...

However, internal brain structures revealed important differences. Social huntsman spiders had distinctly larger brain areas called "arcuate bodies" and "mushroom bodies," both regions of the brain ...

New 3D reconstructions of a key sensory organ in ctenophores reveal an unexpected structural and functional complexity. The ...

Young adults with high social anxiety show heightened activity in the brain's visual processing areas. These neural changes explain their high alertness to social threats and offer a physical marker ...

A new study published in Nature suggests that the neural foundations of spatial navigation—the brain's internal "GPS"—may have emerged far earlier in evolution than previously believed. The research, ...

We know that football players and boxers have brain damage from repeated blows. Now brain research reveals chronic job stress causes brain damage and tips to protect it.

Researchers discover that the RNA surveillance system NMD and the protein UPF2 are essential for guiding neuronal migration and forming the brain's layered cortex.

Explore how the human nervous system mirrors the structure of the Vedas. A neuroscientist from Harvard and MIT discusses the ...

Alcohol may appear to soothe nerves and smooth social edges, but beneath that relaxed buzz the brain is adjusting its wiring. Slowly, alcohol interferes with the chemical signals that allow nerve ...