A new study in mice indicates that long-term treadmill exercise might fully reverse memory problems and reduce brain damage ...

Seeing and moving are directly linked in the brain. When we stand still, the visual scene barely shifts. When we run, by ...

A University of Florida study found an association between glucosamine supplementation and faster progression of Alzheimer’s ...

When an animal encounters a potential threat in its environment, it must focus completely on the danger to protect itself.

Scientists have discovered new information that could aid recovering alcoholics, as they reveal the timeline for the brain to ...

The human brain is made mostly of water, protein, carbohydrates, and fat—lots of fat. In fact, roughly 60 percent of the brain is fat, making it the fattiest organ in the body. Because fats lack a ...

Ancient brain tissue survived for millennia after almost everything else vanished, and scientists may finally know why.

A single dose of psilocybin produced a lasting increase in sociability for at least two weeks in Cntnap2-knockout mice with ...

Roberson, M.D., Ph.D., professor and Rebecca Gale-Heersink Endowed Chair in the UAB Department of Neurology. It was also led ...

The human brain runs on 20 watts. Set that against AI energy use, and the real contest turns out to be electricity.

Credit: Stock Age-related oligodendrocyte dysfunction may contribute to cognitive decline by disrupting myelin and large ...

Artificial hibernation caused mice to lose more than half of their hippocampal synapses, yet their memories survived, ...