What Is a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)? A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an injury to your brain, often caused by a blow to the head. TBIs can damage nerve cells and cause bleeding or swelling in ...

Cardiac arrest (when the heart stops beating) interrupts circulation, causing brain cells to start dying in less than five minutes of the brain going without needed oxygen in the blood. The ...

The TikTokification of social media has created a landscape that caters to shorter videos, which is likely having a profound effect on the attention spans of some of our most impressionable ...

Researchers are uncovering deeper insights into how the human brain ages and what factors may be tied to healthier cognitive aging, including exercising, avoiding tobacco, speaking a second ...

A headset worn at home that zaps the brain with the energy of a 9-volt battery could help relieve symptoms of depression, a new study shows. The study, which was published last week in the journal ...

The anatomy of the brain involves key regions including the brain stem, cerebellum, lobes of the cerebral cortex, and specific glands (the pituitary, for example) needed to maintain life and health.

As beautiful as it is complex, the fly's brain has more than 130,000 wires with 50 million intricate connections They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates - all this ...

Lara Lewington travels to California to meet the scientists and experts researching our brain health, and investigating whether we can change how our brains age. On Mount Chimaera, fire has been ...

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed a novel training protocol for brain-computer interfaces in a study with rhesus monkeys. The method enables precise control of prosthetic hands using ...