A new study revealed that certain brain regions are more active in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during cognitively demanding tasks. The findings could help inform new ways in which ...

Though it accounts for just two percent of the body’s weight, the brain consumes a whopping 20% of its total energy. To get the energy it needs for more complicated tasks, the brain has evolved a ...

When teenagers shift their sleep schedules between school days and weekends, the resulting mismatch can alter the physical ...

It’s been recognized for some time that Alzheimer’s disease affects brain regions differently and that tau — a protein known to misbehave — plays an important role in the disease. Normally, tau helps ...

The brain’s wiring forms a unique fingerprint that reveals how we think, remember, and make decisions. A new study offers the ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early ...

Brain scans reveal falling in love floods the brain with dopamine, quiets critical judgment, and later shifts to ...