You're going about your day when, all of a sudden, you feel a strange, hard-to-describe sensation in your head-like an electrical bolt that seems to come out of nowhere. If you've never experienced it ...

Some call it brain freeze. Others call it an ice cream headache. You might hear a doctor call it a cold stimulus headache or refer to it by its scientific name, sphenopalatine ganglion neuralgia. But ...

If you scroll through TikTok or Instagram long enough, you'll inevitably stumble across the line: "Your frontal lobe isn't ...

The 'silent' X chromosome within female brains may not be so silent after all. A new study has found evidence in both mice and humans that as we age, 'sleeping' X chromosomes can be 'awakened' in ...

Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...

As a gifted science communicator, Grace Huckins — a lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education Program at Stanford University and a freelance science writer — recently won The Nine Dots ...

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) scientists have discovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people compared to ...

A new study has found that the brain system enabling us to inhibit our own pain changes with age, and that gender-based differences in those changes may lead females to be more sensitive to moderate ...

When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite institutions have his back as he explores DMT “entities,” near-death experiences ...

Why do some people love Impressionist paintings like Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” (1906) while others can’t understand the hype? The question of aesthetic taste has stumped scholars for centuries.

To learn more about the health benefits of doing jigsaw puzzles, we spoke with expert therapists and neurologists. Here, they ...

A US study describes the immune response to COVID-19 infection that damages the brain's blood vessels and may lead to short- and long-term neurologic symptoms. It seems that the virus does not infect ...