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Here’s how your brain visualizes scenarios that you’re not actually looking at with your eyes.
Why do some people stay sharp into old age while others decline? The “orchid and dandelion” phenomenon may help reveal how tailored environments could drive better cognitive health for all.
Cerebrospinal fluid can sometimes leak or collect in the brain without an identifiable cause, leading to symptoms that can be difficult to diagnose.
Brains encode language by matching words to patterns of activity. Large language models can do the same thing.
Less sleep and later bedtimes are linked to a section of the brain involved in emotion regulation suffering reduced growth, along with weaker connections to other brain areas.
Brains evolve with body size according to a simple rule. Exceptions to that rule include our own species with enormous brains.
New research has revealed the role that kinesin, a nanoscopic motor protein, holds in the brain. It helps build dendritic spines, the physical structures that grow from neurons.
Our body fiercely protects the brain by holding onto things that help it and keeping harmful things out, such as toxins and bugs that can cause infection.
Deciphering how neurons talk to each other by reading the brain’s electrical activity has given scientists insights into memory and conditions like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
The experience of hearing voices can be very different from person to person, and can change over time. They can be comforting or very distressing.
Traumatic brain injury can have profound long-term impact, but care is often focused on immediate symptoms. Bill C-277 aims to develop a national strategy for treatment, rehabilitation and recovery.
Momentary shifts in mood profoundly alter the brain’s response to pleasure in people with bipolar disorder.
Fluctuating hormones affect the frequency of seizures at multiple times in women’s lives. So we need to tailor their therapies accordingly.
Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia. Here’s why knowing about the diversity of dementia matters.
Hint: the most common type actually works.
The bigger the brain, the better we are at finding fruit. But is that true? A new study on wild primates refutes this idea.
Is the future of mental health treatment ultrasound waves?
The two human species had many similarities but their communication would have been different.
How exactly do anaesthetic drugs shut down the brain? We still don’t have a complete picture, but a new study just got us a step closer.
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