Scientists have identified a hidden brain signal tied to strength and aging, offering a new, early clue to frailty that could reshape how we understand physical decline. Credit: Stock A new study ...

A new discovery by McGill researchers sheds light on how we retain memories over time, even though brain activity is constantly changing. Published in Nature, the preclinical study found the brain's ...

New research reveals that while our memory centers are constantly shifting, our internal compass remains frozen in time to keep our world stable.

Well, for one thing, one study showed that if you take ballroom dance classes and continue for a year, parts of the brain that are important for coordination and planning increase and the size of the ...

Voluntary exercise reshapes gut microbiota and tryptophan metabolism, with consequences for the hippocampus, the ...

Something happens when a rat starts running. Not just the obvious things, the faster heart, the warming muscles, the rhythmic percussion of paws against the wheel. Something quieter. Something that ...

The peer-reviewed research article in Brain Medicine titled "Exercise induces changes in tryptophan metabolism by gut microbes associated with hippocampal function in adult rats," is freely available ...

A single session of physical exercise can spawn a boost of neural activity in brain networks that underlie learning and memory, according to a new study led by the University of Iowa.

A new study shows macaque species with more tolerant social systems have larger brain regions linked to emotions and social signals.

If the brainstem is survival and the cortex is sophistication, then the limbic system is poetry.

For most of the 20th century, the scientific consensus held that the adult brain was essentially fixed, unable to grow new ...

Steven Weisberg, a researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington, put some of the most advanced artificial intelligence tools available to work on structural brain scans and found they could not ...