Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute researchers, along with colleagues in the UK and U.S., have linked brighter ...

To figure out if there’s a grain of truth to all these anecdotes, a team of German scientists at the Hamburg University, led ...

Allowing your mind to wander while engaged in a simple task may actually help improve learning, according to the findings of ...

A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion ...

Light exposure at night may disrupt our body's internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, that keep physiological processes ...

For years, BAMs were hidden in plain sight, often mistaken for other immune cells. That changed with new tools like fate mapping (tracks a cell’s developmental origin) and single-cell RNA sequencing, ...

A recent breakthrough by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, offers a fresh and promising path toward treating Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The study focuses ...

The immune system is the body's protector. Following the detection of a potential threat, such as a bacterial or viral infection, a healthy immune system will attack the foreign invader. What many ...

The drug appeared to shift microglia—the brain’s immune cells—away from a reactive, potentially damaging state and toward a more homeostatic role. “We initially hypothesized that enhancing non-rapid ...

A 2023 study found that shorter sleep duration causes reduced brain cortical thickness. Sleep disorders increase the risk of Alzheimer’s, stroke, and cognitive decline. Chronic sleep deprivation ...

A good night's sleep is essential for our health. One often overlooked factor in achieving quality sleep is exposure to ...

A study from Auburn University reveals that partners who sleep in physically closer positions have lower stress and stronger attachment, making cuddling beneficial for relationships.