In “Cerebral Entanglements,” Allan J. Hamilton argues that new imaging technologies give us unprecedented access — with ...
My belly would sometimes bloat so much that I looked like I was six months pregnant. And the pain? As the gas expanded, it ...
As the animal started to learn, its neural activity started to reflect its changes in behavior. At the beginning of learning, the activity of individual neurons was mostly similar for the two ...
Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...
New research provides direct evidence that the gut microbiome communicates with the brain through the vagus nerve.
The vagus nerve, a complex bundle of 200,000 fibers connecting the brain to vital organs, has remained a medical enigma for ...