Brain

Forgetting in infants can be prevented in mice by blocking their brain’s immune cells - EurekAlert!

The brain’s sneakiest houseguest: how a parasite rewrites neuron messages and alters neuroplasticity - EurekAlert!

Can happiness boost your immunity? New research shows that positive thinking can actually strengthen your immune response to vaccines. By activating the brain’s reward system, people produced more antibodies—proving the "placebo effect" is a real biological power, not just a feeling.

Your brain does something surprising when you don’t sleep

Can a ‘brain in a vat’ be conscious?

How cancer disrupts the brain and triggers anxiety and insomnia

Scientists Develop IV Therapy That Repairs the Brain After Stroke

Your Brain Doesn’t Magically Finish Developing at 25. Here’s What Actually Happens

Does String Theory Solve the Mystery of the Brain?

Good News: You Probably Don’t Have a Spoon’s Worth of Plastic in Your Brain After All

These Brain-Inspired Computers Are Shockingly Good at Math

This is how a coral produces the pulsating movements of its tentacles – without a brain and in perfect synchronization - EurekAlert! Science News Releases

Your Brain Is on Autopilot Two-Thirds of the Day, New Research Reveals

Uncovering how occludin protein maintains blood-brain and blood-retinal barriers - EurekAlert!

The Rhythm in Your Brain That Draws the Line Between You and the World

The brain predicts events with varying degrees of accuracy: If an event is more likely to occur at a certain point in time, the brain tracks the time until it occurs more precisely

Rethinking Parkinson's: Immune insights from brain-resident and peripheral cells offer new therapeutic hopes - EurekAlert! Science News Releases

How the brain creates facial expressions - EurekAlert! Science News Releases

Easy on the eyes is also easy on the brain

Your Gut Microbes May Be Quietly Transforming How Your Brain Works