Caffeine keeps your body fat warm, on top of lighting up your brain
Hot take: caffeine triggers brown fat thermogenesis via the brain
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Cuttlefish can learn with the brains they keep in their arms
With 500 million neurons dispersed throughout the body, some say they have 9 brains
Some people just don't age, at least not like most
Super Agers and their brains might reveal something about age-related cognitive decline
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Students can learn with their mouths as well as with their eyes and hands
The finding is a win for education accessibility for blind and low-vision students
Remembering Ben Barres, the trailblazing trans neuroscientist and mentor, on his birthday
The legacy of the researcher, teacher, and gender equality advocate lives on
A new molecule and an under-appreciated neuron have been implicated in Parkinson's disease
Researchers studying Parkinson’s disease pivot from the usual dopamine story and reveal a new mechanism underlying early motor deficits
There's a neurological reason you say ‘um' when you think of a word
Disfluencies can shed light about what's going on in the brain as we speak
How COVID-19 has worsened the lives of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients
Poor health outcomes and quarantines have accelerated the progress of motor and neurological dysfunction
How seven cases of a mysterious opioid-induced disease revolutionized Parkinson's research
In the early 1980s, seven people took synthetic heroin. What happened next drastically changed our understanding of Parkinson's disease, and how to treat it
Neuroscience has a part in why you're playing Taylor Swift's songs on repeat
Taylor Swift literally has music down to a science
The neurons that make fruit flies interested in sex are turned on by song
Fruit flies go so far as to have species specific melodies and chords
Paralyzed man has sense of touch restored by brain-machine interface
This is the first BMI to restore movement and touch simultaneously
A smell test can predict whether unresponsive patients will recover
Smell could be the key to predicting recovery paths for people after brain injuries
This see-through worm offers new insights into the gut-brain axis
C. elegans provides a transparent model of how bacteria and sound waves can affect the nervous system
Your language brain matters more for learning programming than your math brain
New research contradicts long held assumptions about coding
A new machine can translate brain activity directly into written sentences
Translating up to 50 sentences at once, it's about as accurate as human transcription
Helmets protect athletes' skulls. Will the NFL use neuroscience to protect their brains?
Football needs better helmets, rules, and scientific integrity
Your brain isn't the same in virtual reality as it is in the real world
VR is widely used to study the brain, but it isn't the same as real life — and this has real-world consequences
People missing the scent region of their brain can still smell
Scientists thought you needed an olfactory bulb to smell — then they discovered two unique women
Lead poisoning hits low-income children harder than their affluent neighbors
Children living in poverty suffer greater cognitive and physical effects from lead exposure than children from richer families, even if they live in the same area