As emotions rise and fall in everyday life, your brain keeps up, constantly adjusting. These transitions between feelings—like joy, sadness, or fear—aren’t just random reactions. They’re part of a ...

New research suggests the brain may stay active moments after the heart stops, triggering life recall and calm sensations ...

On Monday, Jan. 12, findings published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) revealed that ...

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

Your behavior today could affect your brain activity in two weeks' time, new research suggests. These findings have significant implications for our mental health as well as our attention, cognition ...

A new study maps how prenatal stress alters immune signalling in the developing brain at a level of detail not seen before ...

A new study has found that psychopaths show structural changes in particular areas of the brain that deal with things like impulse control and emotional regulation. This improved understanding may ...

Anxiety is a mental health condition millions of people around the world experience every day but not something that can necessarily be “seen”—until now. In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists at ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden battle between a widespread brain parasite and the immune cells tasked with destroying it. A parasite that can quietly persist in the human brain is capable of ...