Scottish author Irvine Welsh on Friday described the new sequel to his cult novel "Trainspotting" as an antidote to a world ...

For chronic pain patients, though, the brain interprets even neutral sensations as pain and suffering. In effect, pain ...

Behind all the flash, AI is quietly removing the intellectual itch, the false starts, the second guessing, all those difficult mental activities that accompany brain work.

In other animals, scientists have long known that the brain continues to make new neurons throughout life. But in humans, ...

Inaccurate metaphors about the mind can cause real harm, for instance leading educators to 'train' children like algorithms.

Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain ...

Published in the Journal of Experimental Physiology, this work highlights a new particularity of the enteric nervous system. Illustrative image Pixabay The only organ in our body with an intrinsic ...

While Trump and his gazillionaire friends will benefit greatly from the legislation, I suspect, the middle class, of which I am a member, will see an increase in its federal tax burden (and very ...

New research proposes a unified theory of brain function based on criticality—a state where the brain teeters between order ...

When 64-year-old MBK Nair first noticed a subtle tremor in his right hand in 2020, he brushed it off as fatigue or muscle weakness, assuming that could be a sig ...

Adriana Smith has been kept on life support for months because of Georgia's abortion law, her family told a local news outlet.

Researchers have measured the brain’s faint glow for the first time, hinting at a potential role of “biophotons” in cognition ...