Relating brain activity to behavior is an ongoing aim of neuroimaging research as it would help scientists understand how the brain begets behavior—and perhaps open new opportunities for personalized ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — A team of doctors and scientists have identified the cause of a rare disorder involving intellectual disability and brain malformations. The team found a link between the child's ...

The mechanics of how memories form, strengthen, and weaken over time have largely been a mystery. Now, emerging research ...

Asst. Prof. of Chemistry Sarah King (at right) and graduate student Ruiyu Li in King’s laboratory at the University of ...

The iris determines the size of the pupil (the small, black opening) to regulate how much light gets to the retina (the portion of the eye that initially processes visual information and delivers it ...

David joined Raw Story in 2023 after nearly a decade of writing about the legal industry for Bloomberg Law. He is also a co-founder and a commissioning editor at Hypatia Press, a publisher that ...

The FlyWire project successfully mapped the connectome of the adult fruit fly brain, uncovering 139,255 neurons and 50 ...

Recent research from the Eve Appeal showed that half of women aged 26-35 were unable to label a diagram of the vulva ... crura send pleasure signals to the brain during sex, the glans is more ...

Female anatomy differs from male anatomy in many ... estrogen also affects the heart and blood vessels and the brain, bones, and skin. Between puberty and menopause, levels of estrogen change ...