Fear begins deep in the brain. The amygdala, buried within the temporal lobe, acts as an alarm system, detecting threats and ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

New research reveals that the human brain contains a built-in pain map that activates in different regions when relieving ...

Researchers at USC have created the first method to noninvasively measure microscopic blood vessel pulses in the human brain.

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found that the brain holds a ‘map’ of the body that remains unchanged even after a limb has been amputated, contrary to the prevailing view that it ...

Former civil servant Luo Chen Jun suggests having a single national registry linking organ, body, and brain donations. Read ...

Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants and the prevalence of dementia.

Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a brain disease that’s often misunderstood. It’s actually the second most common type of ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...