A new study shows how the brain reorganizes itself in the first few months after a stroke to improve the ability to speak ...

Human evolution has revolved around food, from identifying and foraging for it to growing and preparing it. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex ...

"Other neurons in the brain are usually restricted to sensing food put into our mouth, or how food fills the gut, or the ...

Do functional foods targeted at brain or cognitive health deliver the benefits they claim and often at added expense to the ...

The scientists uncovered two groups of brain cells in mice: one that helps mice learn about above-average outcomes and ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new—and important or just "background noise." ...

New research explores the many ways our sensory experiences overlaps, teaching us new ways the brain perceives ...

This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

In 2020 an incredible video went viral. It featured a former ballet dancer named Marta Cinta González Saldaña, suffering from ...

When people are asked to focus, there's generally an increase in oxygenated blood flow to the frontal regions of their brain ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just "background noise." ...

A doctor at CHI Memorial Hospital was part of a study that indicates a machine used to examine blood flow in the head can be ...