Everyone knows someone — or maybe is that person — who shuts their eyes tight during the scary parts of a horror film and forces their friend to go first in the haunted house. Others avoid scary ...

The brain is made up of many different parts, each responsible for maintaining certain processes in the body or mind. The medulla oblongata is a small area of the brain stem. Though it may be little, ...

Most people describe their response to misophonia triggers as emotional. Yet, emotions are only a part of the misophonia ...

New research suggests that consciousness originates in the subcortex, and is polished by the cortex and cerebellum.

A new paper looks outside this brain region and reviews the various brain pathways that meet in the brain stem to control feeding behavior, using a technique that offers an unbiased look at the ...

About 100 high school students visit with scientists at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine and get a look at their projects in the hope the students will be inspired to join the field ...

When the myelin sheath that surrounds nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord becomes damaged, a number of debilitating conditions can result that limit mobility, inhibit independence and reduce ...

Every meal you sit down to makes an impression, with foods filed away as something delicious to be sought out again, or to be avoided in disgust if we associate the flavor with gut malaise. How this ...