For decades, scientists believed the heart was a normal organ controlled entirely by the brain. Now, the picture just got a ...

A new study reveals how interneurons, brain cells that regulate the firing of other neurons, act as traffic controllers in ...

Animals and humans develop a certain tolerance to prolonged heat: the body adjusts to release heat instead of generating it, ...

A new study uncovers how progesterone-responsive neurons in the anterior ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) toggle between ...

Scientists pinpoint brain circuits linked to either resilience or vulnerability to adversity, which affect a stressed ...

Researchers at the Foundation (CF) have identified a key neural circuit involved in sexual rejection, uncovering a group of ...

Place cells are well known to encode individual locations, but new experiments and analysis indicate that stitching together ...

A recent study highlights the role of interneurons in the brain, functioning as traffic controllers that regulate other brain ...

Previously, researchers assumed that absence was represented in the brain by neurons not firing. But recent studies have shown that the brain encodes absence with unique neural patterns.

Researchers have flipped the script on the usual approach to pain relief in a new study, demonstrating that a short course of ...

This year is the centennial anniversary of German psychiatrist Hans Berger's invention of electroencephalography (EEG), a way ...