When people say “follow your heart,” it usually sounds like poetic advice. We associate the heart with love, courage, heartbreak, and instinct. But what if there is actually some science behind the ...

A rare examination of an Alzheimer’s patient’s brain revealed that regions cleared of amyloid plaques had remarkably little of the harmful tau buildup associated with memory loss, while neighboring ...

A RARE and poorly understood condition has seen GPs tell Brits that their symptoms are “all in their head”, new research suggests. Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a neurological condition ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden layer of organization in the brain by creating the first detailed 3D map of its lipids, the fatty molecules essential for brain structure and communication. By ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine honored Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work developing optogenetics – a technique that allows researchers to control the ...

Your brain influences your appetite, how you respond to food and whether you feel full. And the relationship also works the other way around: what you eat can directly influence how your brain works.

Intensive breathing exercises can reduce blood flow to the brain by up to 45% and alter communication between brain networks, according to a new brain-imaging study. Participants reported experiences ...

CLEVELAND — Despite its name, there’s no knife involved. Gamma Knife is a form of highly targeted radiation that can treat brain tumors in as little as one visit. Many patients go home the same day ...