A new study found that during extreme endurance efforts like running a marathon, the brain may temporarily break down its own insulation to use as an emergency energy source.

A new study using intracranial recordings in humans reveals that the thalamus, particularly its higher-order regions, plays a central role in triggering conscious perception.

Nearly two decades after suffering a brainstem stroke at the age of 30 that left her unable to speak, a woman in the US regained the ability to turn her thoughts into words in real time thanks to a ...

Genetic Mutations Linked to Toxin Exposure Found in Firefighters' Brain Tumors Mar. 10, 2025 — In a study comparing the glioma tumors of firefighters and non-fighters, researchers found a ...

Aim To compare the effect of active or sham rTMS applied to the motor area of both hemispheres in patients with acute lateral medullary infarction (LMI ... studies have helped our understanding of the ...

mgh.harvard.edu Concussion is a traumatic brain injury (TBI) defined by the presence of transient signs and symptoms related to alterations in brain function due to biomechanical force.1 2 However, ...

Mar. 31, 2025 — New research reveals that lower proportions of specific sleep stages are associated with reduced brain volume in regions vulnerable to the development of Alzheimer's disease over ...

Pain is an example of an important sensory neuron. When you feel pain from a hot pan or a sharp pin, you are sending sensory information via sensory neurons up to the brain. The flow of electrical ...

Five scientists won this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their work on GLP-1 and the development of drugs for diabetes and obesity.

Numbness describes the loss of sensation due to dysfunction of a peripheral nerve. Peripheral nerves are those that emerge from the spinal cord, which send nerve signals to and receive nerve signals ...

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Hearing is a complex process that orchestrates transduction of the acoustic stimulus into neural impulses by the ears, transmission of the neural impulses by the auditory nerves to the brain, and ...