The vagus nerve does it all—tells your lungs to breathe, controls your heart rate, and even forms the foundation for a whole ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since he was elected in 2013. Francis, who was diagnosed with ...

Interrupting signals exchanged between tumors and the nervous system could become a critical pillar of cancer care ...

Doctors are warning about the unusual symptoms of a rare parasitic infection that is common in Hawaii. A New England woman ...

Harvard researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a ...

However, 86% of these studies reported coordinates that were part of a common brain circuit defined by negative functional ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Whether dogs are ticklish on their paws is something that you may be wondering about. Perhaps your dog moves his paw away ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...