The medical consequences of traumatic brain injuries are well-studied and affect millions of Americans every year. But one of ...
The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...
Your brain is wrinkled like a walnut, and those wrinkles aren't just for show. Each fold increases the amount of surface area ...
Delivering therapies to the brain remains a major challenge due to the limited permeability of the blood-brain barrier. In a ...
Along with collapsing buildings, flying debris, and stampedes of fleeing residents, various studies have blamed the ...
In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology ...
Glenn Thomas Tate Jr., who was White Mountain Apache and also from the Gila River Indian Community, went missing in 2020 ...
Researchers found that the brain "shifts upward and backward within the skull following spaceflight," a new wrinkle for future space travel.
In a proof-of-concept study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that an ...
Soon enough, though, it became clear that spaceflight is not, in and of itself, all that harmful to mammals, their hearts, or ...
Following a stint in space as short as a few weeks, astronauts can develop measurable changes in the very shape of their ...