Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a new algorithm, the Krakencoder, that merges multiple types of brain imaging data to better understand how the brain s wiring underpins behavior, ...

Let us start with the brain. The brain is a physical organ, (like heart and liver), and is situated within the skull, that houses billions of neurons that form intricate networks. Brain is said to be ...

Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Researchers have uncovered a key part of the brain that causes older people to become less familiar with their surroundings ...

Scientists have created the first map of the crucial structures called mitochondria throughout the entire brain ― a feat that could help to unravel age-related brain disorders 1. The results show that ...

This has been a golden age for brain research. We now have amazing brain scans that show which networks in the brain ramp up during different activities. But this emphasis on the brain has subtly fed ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that posttraumatic stress disorder may be linked to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the four decades since Oliver Sacks wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, the medical memoir has ...

A study from the University of Michigan and Columbia University has shown that frequent reorganisation of brain networks – ...