Waking up from a nightmare can leave your heart pounding, but the effects may reach far beyond a restless night.

Your brain’s ancient defense system might be sabotaging your test scores. New research suggests our "behavioral immune system ...

In summary, the study shows that a gentle form of brain stimulation can activate parts of the brain that stop working properly in Alzheimer’s disease. It brings hope that one day, treatments like rTMS ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They found abundant signs of neural stem cells growing in ...

A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory center, the hippocampus, ...

Every year in America, nearly 25,000 people are diagnosed with brain cancer. Most of them -- more than 18,000 -- are ...

Two Upstate students have died following complications with bacterial meningitis and meningococcemia. One of the students was ...

Focused ultrasound targeting the amygdala safely reduced emotional brain reactivity and improved symptoms of depression, anxiety, and trauma disorders, suggesting it may be a promising new treatment ...

Brain-to-brain verbal communication in humans was first accomplished in 2014 when brain-computer interfaces helped transmit a ...