Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte ...

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I don't think I've ever laughed harder than during a church service, when something faintly ridiculous caught my eye. My friend saw it too, and once she started laughing, it became impossible to stop.

Willpower is not purely a personality trait. Aging, obesity, insulin resistance, and inflammation may impair frontal brain ...

This is how your ability to delay gratification and tolerate life with patience shapes everything from your career to your ...

Constant “always-on” work culture keeps the brain in prolonged stress mode, elevating cortisol and straining focus, memory, ...

New research demonstrates that electroacupuncture can significantly alleviate pain-induced anxiety- and depression-like behaviors by modulating specific excitatory neurons in the brain. Using a mouse ...

The largest fMRI study to date finds that heavy cannabis use in young adults reduces brain activity and impairs working memory performance.

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the strength of their ...

In the witty new film, Juliette Lewis swaps bodies with a chair. If only escaping the rat race were that easy ...