Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...

The field of epilepsy research has rapidly evolved with an appreciation that seizures arise from dysfunctions in distributed ...

What happens inside your brain when you hear a steady rhythm or musical tone? According to a new study from Aarhus University and the University of Oxford, your brain doesn't just hear it-it ...

The brain is never completely at rest. Even without external input, it produces spontaneous neural activity that creates synchronized fluctuations across different regions - a process known as ...

A nanomaterial based on a platform developed by Professor Samuel Stupp crosses the blood-brain barrier and targets harmful ...

Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks ...