Picture two 50-year-olds with the same education, the same neighborhood, and the same family history. One carries 30 extra ...

Science fiction has an impressive track record predicting advanced technologies. Mobile phones, ATMs and robot vacuum cleaners made their literary debuts about 75 years ago. And as far back as the ...

The first survey of physician attitudes towards cryonics also found one in four believe it's plausible someone could be ...

Five foods your brain most wants in your 60s — and the five it could really do without. The evidence is compelling, the foods ...

The Body Does Not Keep the Score.” Before clinicians and clients start questioning everything they’ve built around somatic ...

Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human ...

A new, body-wide tissue has been discovered that may provide a new pathway for the gut-brain axis. Surprisingly, it may help ...

Eating is not only about getting enough calories. Animals also need to choose the right nutrients. When the body lacks ...

Brain tumor symptoms a Mayo Clinic doctor monitors in her own body include headaches, fatigue, nausea or vomiting and ...

The brain will try to create a world in which it can function. If it is to survive, it will build its functions "in a new environment." It will compensate for everything it can and learn everything it ...

As evolved as we believe we are, as modern humans, there are some "Stone Age" reactions in our emotional brains even today. Sure, we control tiny computers in our hands every day, send astronauts to ...