A team of researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the French National Centre for Scientific ...

The parts of the brain needed to remember words have been identified. Those areas are affected by a common form of epilepsy, ...

These birds have neurons that are activated when they produce specific vocalizations, similar to how neurons are activated in humans, though in a different region ...

By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers have identified how a balance of innate structure and flexible learning produces our remarkably organized ...

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

Most of the above blows are allowed in most combat sports. However, some things that occur during fights aren’t. Punching the ...

It affects your mood, your sleep, even your motivation to exercise. There's convincing evidence that it's the starting point for Parkinson's disease and could be responsible for long COVID's cognitive ...

This is the part of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord. The onset of GBS can be quite sudden and unexpected. It needs immediate hospitalization. It can develop over a few days. Or it ...

Q I keep reading about how the vagus nerve has a lot to do with things like mood, digestion and keeping your brain healthy.

Neurons are cells found in your brain and central nervous system that tell your body how to behave. There are approximately 86 billion neurons in the human brain. Interestingly, your gut contains ...

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