Other, less enthusiastic teachers simply give up and choose to focus on the children who respond well to math classes. But primary school teachers could do well to read about the latest brain imaging ...

Recently, there has been a lot of news around the use of peptides in health circles. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that bans on 14 peptides would be reviewed and ...

Some serious brain disorders begin with symptoms that are easy to misinterpret. A person may become confused, forgetful or paranoid and be treated for mental illness before doctors realize the ...

Thousands of years of bagpipe history have spawned countless fantastical tales, including Scottish faeries infusing highland ...

Brain Cells To Play Video Game Pong: In 2022, Australian biotech company Cortical Labs connected 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish to a computer and taught them to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, ...

These findings suggest that damaged tanycytes may lose their ability to move tau out of the brain. If the cells cannot perform this cleaning role, toxic proteins may remain in the brain and gradually ...

A new brain-imaging study has revealed how ketamine produces its fast antidepressant effects in people with treatment-resistant depression. Researchers tracked changes in a critical brain receptor ...

People who have razor-sharp minds in their 80s and 90s — known as “SuperAgers” — produce twice the number of young neurons as cognitively healthy adults and 2.5 times as many as people with ...

The findings may help explain why this group has such exceptional memory. By Dana G. Smith Many people’s brains deteriorate as they age, becoming riddled with malfunctioning proteins that result in ...

Scientists at Stanford Medicine have discovered a promising new approach that could help protect and possibly restore brain cells damaged by a form of Parkinson’s disease. Their research, conducted in ...

UC San Diego and Scripps Research scientists used a novel method to show that some memory neurons produce proteins at higher rates than others. A new method lets researchers visualize messenger RNA ...

Neuroscientists and philosophers are re-examining Aristotle’s model by investigating how the brain processes sensory information. Instead of treating sight, sound, and smell as isolated experiences, ...