Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Type 2 diabetes may quietly alter the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer’s, weakening reward perception and memory ...

Next time you feel an itch, remember that your brain's vast network of neurons informs it whether it is an itch or pain. A ...

Generalized epilepsy has traditionally been considered a seizure of the "'whole brain.'" However, new research has challenged ...

In recent years, many engineers have been trying to develop hardware components that could emulate the functions of various ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD , director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at ...

In a recent case report published in Frontiers in Immunology, scientists in Canada described how an experimental treatment ...

If you've ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a new study reveals the reason: Our brains physically link memories that occur close ...

Humans have unique brain connections affecting emotions, social intelligence, and language, unlike chimpanzees or macaques.

It’s best known as a slightly faddy route to weight loss, but could the ketogenic (keto) diet, high in proteins and fats and ...

This photo shows a semi-invasive brain-machine interface (BMI) at a press conference held by the Chinese Institute for Brain ...