Beneath the human brain's bulging cerebral cortex, smaller structures toil in relative obscurity. Subcortical areas, also known as the 'deep brain,' play key roles in functions like attention, emotion ...

If this presidential cycle has unified us on anything, it might be that cognitive decline is a hard thing to talk about. Both President Biden and former President Trump face plenty of criticism ...

No matter what you've heard, you don't love anything with all of your heart. You love from the depths of your ventral tegmental area, your hypothalamus, your nucleus accumbens, and other vital areas ...

A crucial molecule for brain health acts as a garbage collector of other fat molecules (lipids), despite also being a lipid itself. So for more than half a century, researchers have puzzled over how ...

Losers of four straight, the New York Jets are "in the fire," according to quarterback Aaron Rodgers. And he believes it's on him to save them. Rodgers, in his weekly spot on "The Pat McAfee Show ...

“It’s Halloween. Everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” The oft-quoted line from the 1978 classic horror flick “Halloween” could be the macabre mantra for the holiday’s fans who ...

That’s why this is a good time to talk about the last fear on the list. Because every year, I review scientific studies, one after the other, put out by researchers who try to determine how ...