Vision happens when patterns of light entering the eye are converted into reliable patterns of brain activity. This ...

Researchers examined anatomy of neurons from humans, mice and fruit flies. They discovered that the cellular structure of the brain is at a critical point, poised between two phases. New insights ...

Yihan Wang (left), a Ph.D. student in UW’s Doctoral Neuroscience Program, and Qian-Quan Sun, a UW professor of zoology and physiology, examine a mouse brain image captured with the UW Microscopy ...

Researchers tested a new MRI correction method, called the traveling-subject (TS) approach, to resolve inconsistencies in ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the Head ...

A part of the brain that is about the size of a sunflower seed in people could play a big role in our food consumption ...

The symptoms of schizophrenia vary greatly from person to person. A new study appearing in the American Journal of Psychiatry ...

Regular exercise changes the structure of our bodies' tissues in obvious ways, such as reducing the size of fat stores and increasing muscle mass. Less visible, but perhaps even more important, is the ...

A study of nearly 10,000 adolescents has identified distinct differences in the brain structures of those who used substances ...