The research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for studying human speech, helping scientists to better understand and treat ...

Using an unbiased approach, this important study discovered a role of Ezh2 in the differentiation of granule neuron precursors, the cell of origin for Shh group of medulloblastoma. Furthermore, the ...

The authors of a new study, which appears in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, investigate links between sleep architecture and brain regions ... crucial biological functions and is ...

Thalamic regions drive conscious perception by syncing with the prefrontal cortex, acting as a gateway to awareness. Using ...

We found brain signals related to basis functions for these social interactions in the medial prefrontal cortex (Fig. 1), a brain region that is crucial for making decisions and thinking about the ...

But a new massive study spells out one more reason to make exercise a priority: It can boost your brain function, no matter how old you are. sports neurologist and founding director of the Center ...

The idea of work-life balance has given way to a more dynamic model: work-life integration. But what does science say about ...

More information: Evan Collins et al, Mapping the structure-function relationship along macroscale gradients in the human brain, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51395-6 ...

the more synchronized the activity between certain brain regions became. The strongest association between the number of children and functional connectivity turned up in a brain network believed ...

These findings provide some evidence that reduced slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REM) may contribute to brain atrophy, thereby increasing the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD).

Serotonin is often painted as the brain's "pleasure chemical" but its precise role in the nervous system is ambiguous and perplexing: It's implicated in everything from mood and movement ...