The urge to vomit after eating contaminated food is the body’s natural defensive response to get rid of bacterial toxins. However, the process of how our brain initiates this biological reaction upon ...

My sister is a speech-language pathologist who trains patients to develop new neural pathways during rehabilitation for various brain injuries. Learning from her over the years has taught me much ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of humans' most prominent nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body's skin to the ...

Researchers have identified a specific neuropeptide and a neural circuit that transmit pleasant touch from the skin to the brain. The findings eventually may help scientists better understand and ...

If the award-winning 1967 movie The Graduate were remade today, the film’s memorable word would need to switch from "plastics" to "plasticity," to mark the present as well as the future.

The brain of humans and other animals is known to contribute to the protection of the body from infections. Past studies have ...

The human brain is a wonderfully enigmatic organ, helping to juggle multiple tasks efficiently to help us get through a long day! This feature, called executive function, seats primates like us at the ...

Extensive research in human cognitive neuroscience has enabled detailed documentation of the functional organization of the cortex. This organization represents regions that are specifically engaged ...