Most people think of a bad night's sleep as a minor inconvenience, something to push through with an extra coffee and a bit ...

South Africa's adolescents are facing unprecedented mental health challenges in 2026. Understand the signs and the pressures they face, and learn how we can help them through empathy and connection in ...

Long periods of being alone can affect how people feel, think, and connect with others. Many people who experience social isolation report sadness, anxiety, and difficulty forming relationships ...

A set of parallel pipes are frozen over and dripping with icicles. - Mikhail Yakovlev/Getty Images Cold winter weather can lead to much bigger headaches than just forcing you to dig out extra blankets ...

Background Chronic visceral pain in IBS with diarrhoea (IBS-D) is a profound therapeutic challenge. While aberrant central processing is implicated, the key brain regions driving this visceral pain ...

A new study in Neuron reveals that the brain’s executive center sends highly specialized, context-dependent instructions to the visual system rather than a generic broadcast signal. The findings ...

ABSTRACT: This study examined the relationships among sleep behavior, self-regulation, and academic decision-making in a sample of 89 male adolescents (ages 14 - 18) recruited through online networks ...

Summary: New research shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t simply broadcast generic commands to sensory regions—it sends finely tailored signals that shape how the brain processes vision depending ...

Two patients with severe brain injury—one with primary traumatic brain injury and the other with secondary brain injury involving hypoxemic encephalopathy following trauma—received 10Hz rTMS targeting ...

After a subcortical stroke, structural and functional alterations have often been observed in brain regions far from the lesion, a phenomenon suspected but not yet confirmed as diaschisis. This study ...