Researchers have found a set of brainstem neurons that can dial down chronic pain. These Y1 receptor neurons balance pain ...

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Your memory during exams isn’t just related to how much you study. It is also about how your brain functions under pressure.

Slow, sleep-like brain waves persist in part of the brain that has been surgically disconnected from the rest of the organ even though the person is awake. The findings 1, published in PLoS Biology, ...

Some day-to-day stress is inevitable for everyone —and the physicians in this article are no exception. But Claudia Muñoz, MD, MPH, a board-certified neurologist and neurohospitalist in Emeryville, ...

Most leaders rely heavily on one key region of the brain: the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which is responsible for high-order ...

Playing certain brain-training games may boost production of a neurotransmitter responsible for attention and focus, ...

Researchers have discovered some good news about the march of time, and there’s less to dread and more to celebrate.

Activating specific neurons in a part of the brain that serves as the body's master circadian pacemaker caused mice to eat ...

Neuroscientists there found that when people learn a new motor skill, their brains don’t just generally “consolidate” the ...

Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki, PhD, joined our editorial director to explain how hormonal shifts and anxiety reshape your mind.