Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

Synaptic plasticity allows brains to learn, adapt, and rewire. It’s foundational to memory, problem-solving, and complex ...

A new study reveals that alpha brain waves help the brain decide what belongs to your body. Faster rhythms allow the brain to match sight and touch more precisely, strengthening the feeling that a ...

A study from Karolinska Institutet, published in ‘Nature Communications’, explains how rhythmic brain activity known as ...

In humans, the process of learning is driven by different groups of cells in the brain firing together. For instance, when the neurons associated with the process of recognizing a dog begin to fire in ...

In a recent study published in the journal Gut Microbes, a group of researchers examined how marital status and perceived emotional support relate to obesity-related outcomes and to coordinated ...