A breakthrough brain scan shows Parkinson’s drugs can misfire in the brain, helping some patients less than others. The fix?

When you're mentally exhausted, your brain might be doing more behind the scenes than you think. In a new study using functional MRI, researchers uncovered two key brain regions that activate when ...

Further research on patients with neurological or psychiatric disorders may give rise to new therapeutic approaches, team ...

Pain is more than a physical signal — it also carries emotional weight that shapes our response and memory of discomfort.

Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered how a cluster of thalamic neurons links physical pain to emotional trauma, ...

Glial cells support neurological structures, function, cognition, behaviours, physical skills, and motor coordination.

New research reveals that the brain region often linked to understanding others, the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC), is activated more by uncertainty than by social reasoning alone.

Our brain makes decisions based on direct associations between stimuli in our environment, but it often also does so based on ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far ...

Advanced treatments, known as immunotherapies that activate T cells—our body's immune cells—to eliminate cancer cells, have ...