Sleep evolved before brains did, study finds
Our brains need sleep to work properly. But it turns out you don't need a...
NIH study uncovers blood vessel damage & inflammation in COVID-19 patients’ brains but no infection
IMAGE: In an in-depth study, NIH researchers consistently found blood vessel damage in the brains of...
How PTSD messes with your brain’s memory centers
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized, in part, by unwanted recollections and vivid emotional responses....
Scientists discover how our brains track where we and others go
IMAGE: Scientists used a special backpack to study for the first time how a person's brain...
How our brains track where we and others go
As COVID cases rise, physically distancing yourself from other people has never been more important....
Astrocytes eat connections to maintain plasticity in adult brains — ScienceDaily
Developing brains constantly sprout new neuronal connections called synapses as they learn and remember. Important...
Astrocytes eat connections to maintain plasticity in adult brains
IMAGE: A 3-D animated image showing our synapse phagocytosis reporter in mouse hippocampus. Presynapses in green,...
Study suggests our brains may be more in tune with each other than we think — ScienceDaily
As COVID cases rise, physically distancing yourself from other people has never been more important....
Survival of the thickest: Big brains make mammal populations less dense
IMAGE: A Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) in Gibraltar view more Credit: Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez/University of Reading Mammals...
Researchers reveal how our brains know when something’s different
IMAGE: NIH scientists discovered how a set of high frequency brain waves may help us unconsciously...