Key points Heart surgery requiring the heart-lung machine (cardiopulmonary bypass) saves lives but can cause brain and kidney problems in many ...

New research is showing that how you breathe could shape how you remember. Breathing patterns don’t just support life—they ...

Microglia dysfunction and cell death in the brain not only paralleled vascular ... pathologies were most severe in the dorsal medulla, where key autonomic centers controlling respiration and ...

My job, like many of yours, demands more from my brain than it is biologically capable of. The philosophical argument that phones, the internet, and AI tools are extensions of our minds Why humans ...

Scientists at UBC have discovered a new type of brain cell, called ovoid cells, which play a key role in object recognition memory. This breakthrough could lead to new treatments for memory-related ...

Interestingly, this study based on the brain-gut axis provided a novel point of view to interpret the mechanism of PHN. Past neuroanatomical and neuroimaging studies of pain suggest that the ...

Brain activity may indicate that after death, our souls depart from our bodies. New studies on brain activity during the dying process suggest that the brain may remain active even after clinical ...

Developed by Australian company Cortical Labs, the CL1 fuses human brain cells with silicon hardware to create a dynamic, learning neural network. This innovative system, known as Synthetic ...

The study, led by researchers from the University of New Mexico, looked at dozens of samples of post-mortem liver and brain tissues taken from both men and women in 2016 and 2024. It found that in ...

Your brain isn’t stagnant; throughout your lifetime, many changes occur as a result of genetic, hormonal, and environmental factors that accompany emotional, intellectual, and physical ...

Researchers identified a gene that seems to help slow brain aging in women, and studied links between hormone therapy, menopause and Alzheimer’s. By Gina Kolata Women’s brains are superior to ...

A protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease progression has been linked to normal brain ageing, raising the prospect that researchers could target it to stave off age-related mental decline.