When we learn a new skill, our brain forms new connections between the neurons. The more we do the new skill, the stronger ...

A new study has identified a specific neural pathway that connects the brain’s processing of internal states to the formation ...

This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...

Scientists have uncovered a way to manipulate the pathway in monkey brains that puts the brakes on motivation.

Researchers mapped the brain connectivity of 960 individuals to uncover how fast and slow neural processes unite to support complex behavior.

Until now, scientists have struggled to understand how the brain processes these sensations separately, as they share overlapping neural pathways from the spinal cord to the brain. Both stimuli are ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...

When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the ...

I feel guilty. I am exhausted and I feel guilty taking a siesta. But I am getting over myself—sometimes. Taking a break isn’t a luxury; it’s a necessity for building new neural pathways. The brain ...