Scientists discovered years ago that the hypothalamus—which helps to manage body temperature, hunger, sex drive, sleep and more—includes neurons that express the protein opsin 3 (OPN3). Far less clear ...

A man is in hospital with a potentially deadly virus that can also cause permanent brain damage after he was bitten by an ...

With improving technology and more applications for the use of artificial intelligence, AI could contribute $20 trillion to ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat ...

A year later, at the onset of Andrew’s illness, I was a fellow at Harvard University studying trends in mortality and life ...

Our study investigated the brain circuits involved in psychosis-a condition characterized by delusions, hallucinations, ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Using a novel deep learning approach, we evaluated the predictive power of the functional connectome during various states (resting state, movie-watching, and n-back) on episodic memory and working ...

Research shows adults sleeping less than six hours face accelerated brain aging and cognitive decline, with high blood ...

Dubbed the “creativity circuit,” damage to this area due to injury or brain disease resulted in both decreases and increases ...

Having a word “on the tip of the tongue” has happened to all of us. Behind this everyday phenomenon lie complex brain ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word "cat" is stuck on the tip of your tongue.