By September, Marines will be screened for blast exposure and overpressure during their periodic health assessments, a ...

Brianna Tobritzhofer is a nationally credentialed Registered Dietitian and experienced health writer with over a decade of leadership in nutrition program development, policy compliance, and public ...

In a large sample of United States (U.S.) Special Operations Forces personnel, researchers found that a higher prevalence of intracranial aneurysms was independently associated with greater repeated ...

Representative axial time-of-flight MR angiography image in a 35-year-old male participant shows a medially projecting intracranial aneurysm (arrow) originating from the right cavernous segment of the ...

For the study, 564 U.S. Special Operations Forces personnel (mean age 43 years, 563 men) were evaluated in the Comprehensive Brain Health and Trauma Program. In a large sample of United States (U.S.) ...

Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

The ‘brain in a jar’ is one of science fiction’s most enduring tropes. Stripped of its body but not of its will, the isolated brain is most often portrayed as a malevolent force, able to impose its ...

The development of the human brain, with its extraordinary range of cognitive abilities, is an awe-inspiring feat of evolution. Each of its tens of billions of cells must be born at precisely the ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain. By Andrew Jacobs As researchers have sought to demonstrate the ...

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs. A new analysis broadens our understanding of psychedelics, such as the psilocybin ...

Interest is growing in using the brain’s waste-disposal system to delay or ease Alzheimer’s disease. Now, a new technique that helps clear toxic clumps of Alzheimer’s-associated proteins from the ...

Scientists have uncovered a powerful new clue in the mystery of brain aging: a single protein called FTL1. In aging mice, higher levels of this protein weakened connections between brain cells and led ...