Music influences emotion, memory, and mental health, and serves as a tool for healing and joy. Explore the roots of its power ...

People with Type 2 diabetes are at a much higher risk for Alzheimer's disease than people without diabetes, and a new stud y might have unearthed the connection. Researchers from University of Nevada, ...

Scientists explored how the human brain might represent information about physical spaces and about people, places and things.

Key areas like the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hypothalamus govern these responses. Dysfunctions in these systems can lead to heightened fear, anxiety, or depressive behaviors.

Regions that handle memory, emotion, and decision-making—the hippocampus, amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and hypothalamus—work together to respond and adapt. When this system breaks down ...

A new study reveals that the thalamus, long overshadowed by the cortex and hippocampus, plays a crucial role in shaping and ...

The physiological response reduces symptoms of anxiety and depression. Exercise contributes to the protection and growth of ...

Years ago, as a neurology resident, Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD, cared for a 20-year-old woman who had experienced a very small stroke, affecting only the thalamus.

2013). TgF344-AD rats show an age-dependent accumulation of amyloid plaques in hippocampus and cortex between 6 and 26 months of age. Plaques are also detected in the striatum and cerebellum. Cerebral ...