Putting your weight into opening a door (say, with your shoulder) is easier than using your hands. Sliding heavy cardboard ...

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures, affecting millions of individuals worldwide. This ...

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, ...

Pain isn't just a physical sensation—it also carries emotional weight. That distress, anguish, and anxiety can turn a ...

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

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 ...

The epigenetic effects of the brain rejuvenation interventions described in the previous section support the notion that neuronal epigenomes are critical regulators for the maintenance of brain ...

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

Could we replace the brain with computer chips? Reality is much more complex and the brain seems to be much more than just a biological computer.