The amygdala and the hippocampus—structures in the brain that are involved in emotion, learning, and memory—have been found to play a role in a diverse […]
Neuroimaging reveals hidden communication between brain layers during reading
Language involves many different regions of the brain. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Donders Institute at Radboud University discovered previously […]
Your brain has ‘landmarks’ that drive neural traffic and help you make hard decisions
Brain regions exchange information by sending and receiving signals through a network of nerve connections. This exchange is crucial to all aspects of the brain’s […]
Study finds hub linking movement and motivation in the brain
Our everyday lives rely on planned movement through the environment to achieve goals. A new study by MIT neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning […]
Learning to read boosts the visual brain
Reading is a recent invention in the history of human culture—too recent for dedicated brain networks to have evolved specifically for it. How, then, do […]
Brain tumors form synapses with healthy neurons, study finds
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown for the first time that severe brain cancers integrate into the brain’s wiring. The tumors, […]
Study shows that drinking tea improves brain health
A recent study led by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) revealed that regular tea drinkers have better organized brain regions—and this is […]
New MRI technique can ‘see’ molecular changes in the brain
MRI’s give us a picture of our body’s insides—organs, bones, nerves and soft tissue. But what if MRI’s could show us the molecular makeup of […]
‘Complex’ exercise like playing badminton is good for your brain
Playing ‘complex’ sports such as badminton are good for your BRAIN ‘because they require more thinking than running’ Researchers compared badminton to running, considered a […]
Map of broken brain networks shows why people lose speech in language-based dementia
For the first time, Northwestern Medicine scientists have pinpointed the location of dysfunctional brain networks that lead to impaired sentence production and word finding in […]
Factor that predicts long survival in brain tumors
The discoveries in the cellular and molecular biology of cancer, the development of drugs against specific genetic mutations, and the emergence of immunotherapy are allowing […]
Alzheimer’s: carriers of risk gene show brain changes in their 20s – here’s why we shouldn’t worry
Dramatic developments in genetics research and the availability of commercial genetics tests have put us in a very modern predicament—we can now find out (quickly, […]
Link between brain immune cells and Alzheimer’s disease development identified
Scientists from the University of California, Irvine School of Biological Sciences have discovered how to forestall Alzheimer’s disease in a laboratory setting, a finding that […]
Alzheimer’s drug ‘can reverse brain damage caused by too much alcohol’
Alzheimer’s drug ‘can reverse some of the brain damage caused by drinking too much alcohol as a teenager’ Scientists at Duke University in the US […]