The brain may organize emotions like locations on a map, revealing a hidden system that helps people interpret changing ...

Human navigation turns out to be less like following a static map and more like tuning a control knob inside the brain. New imaging work suggests that deep in the hippocampus, a seahorse-shaped ...

Each newly discovered fossil adds a page to the history of living beings on Earth, and sometimes, a single page can change what we know so far. All creatures on this planet, including the Arthropods ...

Cerebrovascular diseases manifest as disruptive and deteriorating conditions, gravely impacting cognitive functions by altering the neurophysiological ...

However, internal brain structures revealed important differences. Social huntsman spiders had distinctly larger brain areas called "arcuate bodies" and "mushroom bodies," both regions of the brain ...

New 3D reconstructions of a key sensory organ in ctenophores reveal an unexpected structural and functional complexity. The ...

We know that football players and boxers have brain damage from repeated blows. Now brain research reveals chronic job stress ...

Young adults with high social anxiety show heightened activity in the brain's visual processing areas. These neural changes ...

Scientists uncovered a surprising four-layer structure hidden inside the hippocampal CA1 region, one of the brain’s major centers for memory, navigation, and emotion. Using advanced RNA imaging ...

A new study published in Nature suggests that the neural foundations of spatial navigation—the brain's internal "GPS"—may have emerged far earlier in evolution than previously believed. The research, ...