For decades, brain death has been an important but problematic factor for determining death. Is it time for a new approach?

Scientists used non-invasive MRI to study shrews that seasonally shrink and regrow their brains, uncovering water loss as the ...

A new study shows that overactivation of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain can trigger their degeneration, mirroring ...

The fourth and final season of Prime Video’s ‘Upload’ gives a farewell to Nathan Brown and the residents of Lakeview through ...

When the heart stops, the brain does not shut down instantly. For up to seven minutes, it shows surges of activity linked to ...

What’s happening inside the brain when experiencing something for the first time — and how it decides if it’s meaningful — is the subject of new research from the Barth Lab, which focuses on how ...

Long dismissed as impossible, nerve regrowth is offering new hope for healing injuries and treating neurodegeneration ...

So when we engage in, for example, travel, and we're doing all kinds of things that are novel and complex, and the brain's reacting physiologically, your brain begins to look like a jungle.

What’s going on in your brain when you travel? One brain health expert says you’re having Eustress—aka good stress—challenging multiple cognition and communication centers to work a little harder to ...

After an alarming federal report, you’d think transplant doctors would work hard to increase public confidence in their methods. Instead, they’re going the other way.

Their brain age of these subjects, mostly octogenarians and novogenerians, defied the expectations of the degenerative processes that often happen to the brains of people who reach their ...