The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

Newly discovered brain cells count each bite before sending the order to cease eating a meal. Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to ...

Feb. 4, 2025 – Microplastics have been found in the brain, showing they can cross the blood-brain barrier, and the amounts of the tiny plastic bits inside our bodies appear to be increasing at a ...

Left-handed people, also known as "lefties" or "southpaws," make up about 10% of the global population. But are they more ...

Research on brain plasticity, particularly in the context of deafness ... preSMA = pre supplementary motor area, postCG = postcentral gyrus, preCG = precental gyrus, FP = frontal pole. Supplementary ...

Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. And his goal of achieving "symbiosis" with artificial intelligence starts with a brain chip. Neuralink, a company Musk co-founded, is testing linking ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

We found that state anxiety was positively correlated with the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFFs) of somatic related brain regions, including the right postcentral gyrus (somatosensory ...

The most striking changes observed in brain single photon emission computed tomography images were in the anterior cingulate and the postcentral cortex ... the inferior frontal gyrus (BA 46, BA 47) ...

In the latest study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, scientists developed a brain implant to enable the participant’s own request to fly a drone. Researchers implanted the device in the ...