Although we know a lot about the brain and what it does, we still have much left to learn about the most complex organ in the ...

New results help address a longstanding debate regarding which learning strategies allow animals to anticipate negative events based on past associations between sensory stimuli.

In the first study of its kind, the researchers examined 84 people with temporal lobe epilepsy (epilepsy arising from the temporal lobe at the sides of the head) and hippocampal sclerosis (a ...

The ears are a pair of sensory organs whose primary functions are hearing and balance. They are divided into three portions: the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. Each has an intricate ...

According to the leading dementia charity Alzheimer's UK, food cravings could precede a dementia diagnosis. To be specific, food cravings have been linked to frontotemporal dementia, which impacts ...

In Nature Neuroscience, UConn School of Medicine researchers have revealed a new scientific clue that could unlock the key cellular pathway leading to devastating neurodegenerative diseases like ...

Abstract: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a noninvasive neuroimaging technique capable of recording dynamic brain activity, which can be used to construct a dynamic functional brain ...

Humanity has been hunting for sex-based differences in the brain since at least the time of the ancient Greeks, and it has largely been an exercise in futility. That's partly because human brains do ...

The medial temporal lobes play an important role in episodic memory, but over time, hippocampal contributions to retrieval may be diminished. However, it is unclear whether such changes are related to ...