Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When we are angry, our emotional brain goes into overdrive, and we act first rather than think first. (Ekaterina Goncharova via ...

The reason female brains have less cognitive aging may be due to the reawakening of the dormant X chromosome late in life, which turns on genes that help sustain healthy brain cell connections. This ...

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Ann, 47, suffered a stroke that caused paralysis in 2005. The interface in the new study aims to help people who are unable to speak to communicate verbally. Noah Berger After Ann Johnson suffered a ...

Are male brains really that different from female brains? Does it matter? Why should anybody care? More than 100 years ago, a German neurologist named Paul Julius Möbius published a book titled Über ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

Brain cells, or oligodendrocytes (green), in the hippocampus are marked with the GFP genetic marker in the mouse brain. These cells often deteriorate during aging. Image credit: Gadek et al., Science ...