Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they're often dismissed as an uninteresting ...

The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small.

The existence of specialised structures that allow a continuous exchange of CSF between different anatomical compartments at ...

The new system, published Tuesday by a lead author based at UCSF, aims to bring more nuanced diagnosis and treatment to head ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study.

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language-processing ...

Former president Joe Biden announced he has prostate cancer that has spread to the bone. Here, a timeline of Biden's health ...

The inner ear contains distinct sensory organs, produced sequentially by segregation from a large sensory-competent domain in the developing otic vesicle. To understand the mechanistic basis of this ...

In migraine, the trigeminal nerve plays a crucial role. It transmits pain signals from the brain to the face, where flare-ups occur. Migraine causes severe headaches with other symptoms like ...

What this allowed was a full-spectrum view of the brain’s dance—from millisecond-level flickers of electric fields to broad patterns of blood flow — capturing consciousness from multiple ...

People of all ages now grow up — and grow old — immersed in digital screens, generating concerns about the potential effects on the brain ... “In my view, digital literacy should be treated ...

Pain is an example of an important sensory neuron. When you feel pain from a hot pan or a sharp pin, you are sending sensory information via sensory neurons up to the brain. The flow of electrical ...