Because information flows both to and from the brain via vagal pathways, the vagus nerve can be thought of as a major mind-body highway. The many branches of the vagus nerve are increasingly seen ...

Your brain isn’t stagnant ... University of Texas Medical Branch; Charlotte Markey, Ph.D., chair of the department of health sciences at Rutgers University at Camden and author of Adultish ...

The parts of the brain needed to remember words have been identified. Those areas are affected by a common form of epilepsy, ...

Hailed as the man who reshaped geometry, French-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot first coined the word “fractals” to ...

A new study shows that our brains physically link memories formed close together in time through changes in the dendrites of neurons, rather than in the cell bodies.