A new study that used functional MRI (fMRI) to measure neural activity in the brains of menopausal women has found evidence of a rise in the activity of the brainstem even before the women experience ...

Recent technological advances are allowing neuroscientists to map the human brain with increasing precision, highlighting connections between different regions and their function in greater depth.

The research team included Kimberlee D’Ardenne GS, psychology professor and co-director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute Jonathan Cohen, co-director of the Neuroscience of Cognitive Control ...

It’s not all in your head, but your expectations can sway your perception of pain intensity. Information about expectations — the driver of the placebo effect — travels from the cortex to groups of ...

Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is surprisingly common in athletes and may signal chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) caused by brainstem tau and Lewy body pathologies, new ...