A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney. A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood ...

Hip-hop duo Clipse have finally announced Let God Sort Em Out, their first new album in 15 years. The long-awaited project is ...

But, it turns out that quiet isn’t passive at all. In fact, after just three days of intentional silence, the brain begins to physically and functionally rewire itself. A growing body of ...

Brain scans now show that fasting doesn’t just influence how we eat, it reshapes how we think by changing our brains. The practice appears to strengthen regions of the brain involved in focus ...

An Ohio music conductor is using deep brain stimulation to combat his Parkinson’s disease. Rand Laycock, 70, the director and conductor of a symphony orchestra, was diagnosed just before his ...

It's the second most common brain disorder that gets worse over time, and for many, its effects are devastating. The disease centers around a key problem in the brain—clumps of a protein called ...

A Grammy-winning singer and his family have revealed the surprising early symptoms of his brain cancer. Michael Bolton, who was diagnosed in December 2023 with glioblastoma — the most aggressive ...

And my brain works so quickly and gets bored so quickly ... In California it’s Ed Ruscha. And in Miami it’s Kaws. It’s money see, monkey do. With me it’s about you know, walking into ...

In their mathematical framework for how systems of cells can encode and process information, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts argued that each brain cell, or neuron, could be thought of as a logic ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A new package of papers examines the largest map yet of mammalian brain tissue. The map shows one cubic millimeter worth of neurons in ...

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist, I am always looking for the biological underpinnings of mental processes—not as an effort to distill mystery into molecules, but to ...

Scientists have long struggled to define brain fog—let alone pinpoint a cause for it. But research is starting to reveal multiple potential causes from inflammation to a leaky blood-brain barrier.