People who cut their sleep short are quietly degrading the brain circuit responsible for recognizing familiar faces and recalling names, according to converging animal and human research that traces ...

The brain of humans and other animals is known to contribute to the protection of the body from infections. Past studies have unveiled the existence of the so-called conditioned immune response (CIR), ...

Physical pain is essential for survival, as it allows animals to detect when they are injured or unwell, seek shelter and ...

In the split second after you hear a noise, your brain is already making a potentially life-or-death deduction: Did I do that ...

The neural mechanisms of many symptoms associated with migraine have yet to be elucidated. New research suggests that a non-image-forming retinal pathway and signals from the dura mater contribute to ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...

Stress worsens sleep quality and can impair memory. Shinjae Chung, from the University of Pennsylvania, led a study to explore a neural pathway in male mice that stress may influence to cause sleep ...

Neural resonance theory proposes that music is not a mental image of the sounds we hear but actual physical vibrations ...