For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center officials announced Dr. Ulrich Bickel, pharmaceutical sciences professor and associate dean for sciences at its Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy in ...

In a new paper with implications for preventing Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, Keith Hengen, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St.

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When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that ...

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Discover how dietary factors could affect how live bacteria "leak" from the gut microbiome to enter the brain, potentially triggering neurological conditions.

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When a cocaine addict relapses, it isn't a matter of personal failure—it's the biological result of their brain's rewiring, ...

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