In a step towards suspended animation of people, slices of mouse brains have shown near-normal activity after being stored at ...

Humans have certain instinctive fear reactions to things that won’t actually harm us—we might jump at a too-loud noise or ...

Your brain’s natural rinse cycle flows while you sleep. A new study suggests certain medications interfere with that ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered that the brain cells (POMC neurons) responsible for making us feel full are ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

To find the cause of the "dessert stomach", the researchers investigated the reaction of mice to sugar and found that completely satiated mice still ate desserts. Investigations of the brain showed ...

Scientists tracked tiny pieces of microplastics as they moved through the brain blood vessels of mice. Some of them became ...

While stress is an unfortunate fact of modern life, scientists are still learning how it affects us. Chronic stress, in ...

Two brain regions work together when mice learn to override the instinct to run and hide from a potential threat.

In their study published in Nature Communications, researchers identified an unusual type of brain cell they named “ovoid ...

Nerve cells that tell to us we are full also make us crave sweetsWho hasn't been there? The big meal is over, you're full, ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists has identified a mechanism that corrects visual distortions caused by movement in animals. The study, ...