Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

Challenging the brain by exposing it to new situations, tasks and skills can improve its efficiency, much like strength ...

Together with colleagues from Stanford University, USA, researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) have, for the first time, created a comprehensive cell ...

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, forms an abnormal connection with an enzyme called ClpP. This enzyme normally ...

Cleveland researchers achieve full cognitive recovery in mice, offering new hope for dementia patients.

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Research shows that delaying important tasks is often driven by how the brain processes stress and threat—not by poor time ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, ...

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...

Can positive anticipation that activates the brain’s reward system strengthen the body’s immune defenses? A new study by Tel Aviv University, the Technion, and Tel Aviv Medical Center (Ichilov), ...

New research has revealed that many psychiatric disorders share a common genetic root, a discovery with the potential to ...

How discovering that different parts of the brain work together as networks has transformed our understanding of everything ...