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Every patient who undergoes surgery places tremendous trust in the medical team, including the anesthesiologist or CRNA. Anesthesia allows patients ...

The vagus nerve sits at the crossroads of brain–body communication, shaping how we regulate stress, inflammation and core physiological functions. While the vagus nerve profoundly influences health ...

The race to understand the brain has just crossed a new threshold, with a supercomputer-driven model that behaves less like a ...

The human brain is anything but static, shifting neural activity depending on time of day. In A Nutshell Scientists mapped active neurons in mouse brains at four different times of day and found the ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

Instead, the imaging features show relative changes in blood flow, which are used as a proxy for brain activity, and are ...

Scientists uncovered a surprising four-layer structure hidden inside the hippocampal CA1 region, one of the brain’s major centers for memory, navigation, and emotion. Using advanced RNA imaging ...

Normal aging is characterized by deficits in the cognitive domains of learning, memory and executive function. Specifically, there are age-related changes in recall of information, speed of processing ...

Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine ...

A hidden four-layer structure in the brain’s key memory hub has been revealed, reshaping how scientists understand learning ...