such as Republicans versus Democrats as in the U.S., but we see a more fine-grained spectrum of how political ideology can be ...

Researchers have created one of the first comprehensive maps of how the brain changes throughout pregnancy, substantially ...

The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important ...

Astrocytes in the brain exhibit significant regional diversity, but the mechanisms controlling their heterogeneity remain ...

The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important locations in space, like directing their eyes and head toward a bright ...

Neuralink's new "Blindsight" implant, now FDA-approved, aims to restore sight to blind Neuralink has just hit a game-changing milestone: its experimental brain-computer interface (BCI) implant ...

Sickness-induced sleep is a behavior conserved across species that promotes recovery from illness, yet the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we show that interleukin-6-like cytokine ...

Immunotherapy can remove extracellular amyloid plaques from Alzheimer’s brain, but has so far failed to clear intracellular tau tangles. Now, two papers propose a solution: tagging them for ...

This could help us identify and explore potential therapeutic avenues for dementia. Maintaining healthy blood flow to the brain is important for its function, as the brain is a highly active organ ...

Working memory can hold only 4-7 chunks of information at once Forgetting happens when the brain juggles multiple thoughts at once Recreating context can help in retrieving forgotten thoughts ...