Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval zebrafish display remarkably precise spatial navigation. Even in small ...

That sharp flinch during a violent movie scene is familiar to many people. A hand slams, a body falls, and your own muscles ...

People who appear healthy based on body weight alone may still face an overlooked risk to their brain health.

A heart attack activates stress circuits in the brain that evolved for survival but can amplify inflammation, disrupt healing ...

What if we could peer into the brain and watch how it organizes information as we act, perceive, or make decisions? A new study has introduced a method that does exactly this—not just by looking at ...

Scientists have created a device that can read a person's brain signals and translate their internal speech, at least on a modest level. Reading time 3 minutes Scientists are inching closer to making ...