A preclinical study published in Nature has found evidence that the hippocampus, the brain region that stores memory, also reorganizes memories to anticipate future outcomes.

So, he and his colleagues induced heart attacks in mice and examined responses in the vagus nerve, which carries signals ...

A protein naturally made in the body reduces inflammation and pain after surgery, according to a new preclinical study from investigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Published in ...

The data were collected from people about to have surgery. They show that as anaesthesia takes hold, the interplay between ...

Humanity is sending people to the Moon again after half a century. The U.S. has resumed crewed lunar exploration, which was halted since Apollo 17 in 1972, through the Artemis program. As early as the ...

Herrera joined the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences on Jan. 5 as an assistant professor of meat science and muscle biology ...

Muscle twitches fall into two main types. There’s myoclonus, where a whole muscle or group of muscles twitch or spasm. Then ...

A newly discovered collection of neurons suggests the brain and heart communicate to trigger a neuroimmune response after a heart attack, which may pave the way for new therapies ...

New research suggests pain is not a simple signal of injury but a process that unfolds across nerves, spinal cord, and brain.

Machine learning decodes brain signals for paralysis recovery in just one second using sensors placed on scalp not inside ...

An individual may become completely paralyzed because of any number of accidents that interfere with the functioning of the ...

The brain, much like muscles, strengthens through challenge and rest. Neuroplasticity allows adult brains to form new ...