New research shows how the brain overcomes instinctive fear and has helped scientists get a better understanding of how our brains work.

New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Dubbed the “creativity circuit,” damage to this area due to injury or brain disease resulted in both decreases and increases ...

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...

In “Cerebral Entanglements,” Allan J. Hamilton argues that new imaging technologies give us unprecedented access — with ...

Every month, it seems, a new paper comes out declaring that microplastics have invaded another realm of our body: They’re in ...

Joe Walsh is now testing a new treatment using a nasal spray, the medication inside is called Foralumab. He is the first patient with Alzheimer's to try it. The Walsh family is hopeful. Foralumab is ...

Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists ...

In a nutshell The brain uses active “circuit breakers” to suppress irrelevant information, rather than passively letting ...

The tragic death of a baby locked in a car outside her childcare centre has sparked calls for the introduction of mandatory ...

Neuroergonomics is the study of human behavior while carrying out real-world activities, including in the workplace. It involves recording a person's brain activity in different situations or ...