Scientists have discovered that a specific area of the brain, called the ventral hippocampus, functions like an “anxiety ...

Slippery proteins in the brain’s blood vessels form a protective barrier that breaks break down with age, studies in mice ...

The rest are in the doughnut-shaped brain, which is wrapped around the oesophagus and located in the octopus’s head. Octopuses have demonstrated intelligence in a number of ways, says Jon. “In ...

In experiments on macaque and rat brain recordings, the scientists used MARBLE to show that when different animals used the same mental strategy to reach an arm or navigate a maze, their brain ...

The brain creates internal 'maps' to help us navigate and learn from our surroundings, but how these maps form remains a challenge to understand.