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A longitudinal study has found that high-intensity interval exercise improves brain function in older adults for up to 5 years.

Even years after they have recovered, a person who once struggled with alcohol or opioid addiction can relapse–and that relapse is more likely to occur during particularly stressful times. Now, scientists have identified an area of the brain that play…

A team of researchers has identified and located a population of stem-like cells that initiates and maintains Group 3 medulloblastoma (Gr3-MB) in the developing brain. Gr3-MB is one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer in children and is associ…

Scientists have found that in premature newborns with very low birth weight, salt and water transporters on immature neurons can cause brain tissue to shrink in response to a lack of oxygen, which in turn results in brain bleeding and lifelong neurolog…

The ability to recognize and respond to emotionally-charged situations is essential to a species’ evolutionary success. A new study advances our understanding of how the brain responds to emotionally charged objects and scenes.

You look up into the clear blue sky and see something you can’t quite identify. Is it a balloon? A plane? A UFO? You’re curious, right? A research team has for the first time witnessed what is happening in the human brain when feelings of curiosity lik…

Research found the choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid play a key role in maintaining a pool of newly born neurons to repair the adult brain after injury.

By prohibiting the Activin A protein from functioning, researchers were able to halt the development of dyskinesia symptoms and effectively erase the brain’s ‘bad memory’ response to L-DOPA treatments.

The largest animals do not have proportionally bigger brains — with humans bucking this trend — a new study has revealed.

New research details the connection between the neurological symptoms associated with aura and the migraine that follows. The study also identifies new proteins that could be responsible for headaches and may serve as foundation for new migraine drugs.