Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flows through your central nervous system, serving multiple roles: it protects your brain, takes out the cellular trash, and even ...

The Neuroscience of Reciprocity, we explored how altruistic behavior activates the brain’s reward system. In this continuation, we shift our focus to fairness and trust— deeply ingrained instincts ...

By Sneha Mathur Imagine standing in line at a café when someone blatantly cuts ahead of you. A flash of indignation flares up – “Hey, that’s not fair!” On the other hand, think about how you would ...

As long as dogs avoid speaking human language and we lack the technology to translate, interpreting your companion’s behavior remains difficult–especially if you see your canine as “a little quirky”.

the strength to which activity between a pair of brain regions covaries or correlates over time. That is, if two brain regions are consistently active at the ...

Bu fikir sinirbilim alanında nispeten yeni olsa da, “son giren ilk çıkar” örüntüsü uzun süredir var olan bir biyolojik teoriyi temsil eder. 1881’de Fransız psikolog Théodule-Armand Ribot, retrograd ...

Snap! Crackle! Pop! Those are the sounds that Professors David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel heard in the early 1950s when they recorded from neurons in the visual cortex of a cat, as they moved a bright ...

Check out this infographic describing the Golgi Complex and it's role in the brain!

Evidence suggests that feeding your brain with the plant-based diet of the Mediterranean regions may reduce the risk of cognitive problems, effectively making you live a longer and healthier life.

Every fortress needs watchmen, sentinels who don’t just sound the alarm, but sense when danger is approaching. For decades, we believed the brain’s sentinels were microglia alone, immune cells ...

The idea that our surrounding temperature affects the workings of our brain may seem far-fetched. However, new evidence suggests that temperature-related changes can sway your decision-making.