Well, for one thing, one study showed that if you take ballroom dance classes and continue for a year, parts of the brain that are important for coordination and planning increase and the size of the ...

Many people can easily remember the words of a song they haven't heard in decades, but sometimes they forget why they entered ...

Researchers have identified a network of connections between the brainstem and spinal cord that enables people to grasp, hold, and manipulate objects. The discovery could guide new stroke therapies.

A study combining brain imaging, computational modeling and AI found that hippocampal–prefrontal circuits organize emotions into a map-like structure based on pleasantness and arousal. The hippocampus ...

, and there it is again - that fragment of a song, looping endlessly with no off switch in sight. Most people know exactly ...

For people antidepressants can’t help, ketamine changes the brain in ways we can now see In A Nutshell For the first time, researchers used a specialized brain scan to watch how ketamine alters a key ...

If the brainstem is survival and the cortex is sophistication, then the limbic system is poetry.

While driving recently, a long-forgotten song came on the radio. I found myself singing along; not only did I know all the lyrics to a song I hadn't ...

Previously, we examined the remarkable disparity between the intellectual capacities of human beings and primates. While our closest relatives, the chimpanzee, possess traits and characteristics that ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a hidden "movement map" deep within the brain—a discovery that could help surgeons ...