An international research team comprising neuroscientists at Virginia Tech, University College London and the University of London revealed brain mechanisms and functional regions that underlie ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 99, No. 5 (Mar. 5, 2002), pp. 2912-2917 (6 pages) Likelihood estimates of local rates of evolution within proteins ...

Understanding how the brain functions, particularly how information is processed during different activities, is difficult without knowing how many axons are in the brain and how many connect ...

My late father, Richard Bergland, M.D. (1932-2007) published The Fabric of Mind in 1986. For the book cover, dad insisted on a sagittal plane view; he liked how this vantage point elucidates major ...

Genetic variability is known to be a major contributor to cancer risk. It is estimated that 31% and 57% of risk can be explained by genetics for breast and prostate cancer, respectively. With these ...

DURHAM, N.C. – New genomic analyses suggest that the most common genetic variants in the human genome aren't the ones most likely causing disease. Rare genetic variants, the type found most often in ...

Functional regional analysis is an interdisciplinary framework that seeks to delineate spatial areas—often termed functional regions—that exhibit strong internal interactions, particularly in terms of ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 45, No. 2 (May 2025), pp. R27-R40 (14 pages) The European Alps are surrounded by highly urbanized areas located close to fragile mountain landscapes. The ...

Reductions in perceived stress and anxiety following transcendental meditation (TM) are associated with functional changes in key regions of the brain, in the first study to investigate the effects of ...