Even if it hasn’t infected your “For You” page yet, the latest iteration of Italian brain rot has been around for roughly ...

We explore if brain rot, the impact of consuming too much online content, can affect your sleep. Here’s what the experts say.

We explore if brain rot, the impact of consuming too much online content, can affect your sleep. Here’s what the experts say.

Last year, Oxford University Press designated "brain rot" as its word of the year, defining it as the "supposed deterioration ...

A study of long-distance runners shows the brain’s remarkable ability to adapt—by burning its own fat. A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits.

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist, I am always looking for the biological underpinnings of mental processes—not as an effort to distill mystery into molecules, but to ...

Blame cell death and fungi for brain decay, not TikTok. TikTok won't really make your brain rot. That doesn't happen until after death. While most brains rot quickly, researchers have found a ...

Atlanta — The case of a pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead and has been kept on life support for three months has given rise to complicated questions about abortion law and ...

There was also evidence that key immune cells in the brain might be working in a more balanced way. This could help remove cellular waste and reduce the chronic inflammation tied to age-related brain ...

An Ohio music conductor is using deep brain stimulation to combat his Parkinson’s disease. Rand Laycock, 70, the director and conductor of a symphony orchestra, was diagnosed just before his ...

“And I actually had to have brain surgery to have that taken out.” AVM is a tangle of blood vessels that typically forms during fetal development and leads to irregular connections between ...

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