Neuroscience shows traditional teaching is not enough. Instead, an experiential approach can return learning to its natural ...

Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one that ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

A couple of years ago a scientist looking at dozens of MRI scans of human brains noticed something surprising. A large, fiber pathway that seemed to be part of the network of connections that process ...

Learn how neurobiology could explain why some people are better at accepting and adapting to change.

Scientists have long theorized about a network of pathways in the brain that are believed to clear metabolic proteins that would otherwise build up and potentially lead to Alzheimer's and other forms ...

Anxiety is often described as a whole‑brain problem, but a series of mouse experiments suggests that, in some cases, a single ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's brain develops, with effects that last well beyond childhood. But families ...

If you are unable to resist tucking into a thick slice of gooey chocolate cake, nibbling brightly-coloured candy or picking at a bowl of plump, juicy olives, you can blame your brain instead of your ...