Alcor, a U.S.-based cryonics organization, uses a technique known as cryopreservation to freeze and preserve the heads of legally deceased individuals. They hope that in the future, advancements ...

Look around, and you'll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way the brain organizes into regions. Nature loves modularity - a limited number ...

That’s electroconvulsive therapy, and it’s when doctors send big doses of electricity into the brain to cause a controlled ... but is that really where our self is? And why are people so ...

With this technique, the researchers can detect oxidative stress, which leads to brain damage, offering a clear path to detecting neurological conditions. The findings were published today in ...

This study is the first to specifically explore the immediate effects of walnuts on brain function in young adults over a single day, adding to prior research discussing the cognitive benefits linked ...

Learning to think more about specific events in the future appears to reduce impulsivity, improve decision-making ... showed that brain connections were altered by future thinking.