Brain

Figuring out how autism starts is complicated. … [A] large international team obtained skin cells from eight autistic people and ...

Most of us experience these so-called "typical dreams" during our lifetime. Around three-quarters of people dream of falling, for instance, and that ...

I harass my dog [constantly]. She’s a little loaf of a thing, with big eyes and satellite-dish ears and a ...

To understand another person’s point of view, children with autism need to actively suppress their own, a new study suggests ...

It is well known that a high salt diet leads to high blood pressure, a risk factor for an array of health ...

[D]oes mastering a second language hone our multitasking skills or merely muddle us up? … In the Annual Review of Linguistics, ...

[A] new study out of the University of California, San Francisco, published [November 29] in Current Biology, seems to offer an intriguing ...

[Neurosurgeon Ashesh Mehta] was operating on [an] epilepsy patient to determine the source of seizures. But the patient agreed to ...

One of the strangest things that can sicken us—a rogue misfolded protein that destroys the brain, known as a prion—is ...

In the latest example of bacteria being "literally everywhere," scientists appear to have found evidence of microbes living harmlessly in ...

Japanese neurosurgeons have implanted ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells into the brain of a patient with Parkinson’s disease for the first time ...

Three years ago Mark Crislip wrote about leaky gut syndrome for SBM. He said, “because of an almost complete lack of supporting basic ...

Lurking in the layers of the human appendix lie deposits of alpha-synuclein, a protein prone to gumminess, like sticky rice ...

So how is it that we can ride a bicycle when we haven’t done so in years? As it turns ...

[There are a] number of methods that are being used to break down the [blood-brain] barrier that keeps drugs for ...

Huda Zoghbi has uncovered the molecular mechanisms of normal neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration by probing the complexities of rare neurological diseases ...

There are an estimated 80,000 people, mostly men, in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. They are confined to windowless cells ...

[A]t Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine conference in San Diego, technologists presented new non-invasive devices that seek to simplify and democratize brain modulation ...

Discussing gender dysphoria and brain differences in transgender populations ...

[T]he average age of diagnosis for a child with autism is over four years. Because of late diagnoses, many of ...

Mice yanked out of their community and held in solitary isolation show signs of brain damage. After a month of ...

Researchers have long recognized that exercise sharpens certain cognitive skills. Indeed, [researcher Hiroshi] Maejima and his colleagues have found that ...

If you stumbled across a radio or a computer and had no idea how it worked, you would likely first ...

Taking a monthlong break from pot helps clear away young people’s memory fog, a small study suggests. The results show ...

The appendix, a once-dismissed organ now known to play a role in the immune system, may contribute to a person’s ...

Hallucinations linked to vision loss from macular degeneration are caused by abnormally heightened activity in the visual cortex of the ...

New results from brain scans of adults with autism are at odds with the popular theory that autism involves weak ...