A signaling pathway best known for shaping the brain before birth also helps govern how adults learn, adapt, and persist in ...

While past research has hinted at an overlap in relevant brain regions, the new work drills down to the cellular level. The ...

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated ...

The researchers found a pathway that connects the brain's stress centers to the region responsible for habits and decision‑making. The stress centers include two small regions deep in the brain called ...

(NewsNation) — For more than 60 years, doctors have prescribed metformin as a frontline treatment for Type 2 diabetes. Now, researchers say they’ve uncovered something that was hiding in plain sight: ...

For over 60 years, metformin has been a first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes, yet scientists have not fully understood how it works. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, along with ...

A familiar trope in science fiction is the cryopreserved time traveller, their body deep-frozen in suspended animation, then thawed and reawakened in another decade or century with all of their mental ...

A new study (Cardenas et al., 2026) suggests that just 20 minutes of moderate cardio may trigger brain activity tied to learning and memory. Researchers found that a single cycling session sparked ...

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The term “brain tumor” carries a particularly scary connotation. And if you’re a fan of TV medical dramas, you may think they’re quite common. However, less than 1% of Americans are living with a ...