Donnie MacRae's brain was removed by German researchers after his death while he was a prisoner of war during World War Two.

In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published ...

There was the body, made of muscle and bone, and then there was the mind, where moods and thoughts and feelings lived.

It’s easy to get caught up in tending to your weight or the look of your biceps — but don’t forget about gains for your brain ...

Where fat is distributed across the body—not merely the total amount—significantly and independently influences brain ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that an intensive retreat combining multiple mind-body techniques, including meditation and healing practices, produced rapid and ...

Interoception is how your brain senses and responds to what’s going on inside your body. “It’s how we know when we’re hungry, thirsty, anxious, or even need to take a deep breath,” says Wen G. Chen, ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a surprisingly complex nervous system in sea urchins. The animals appear to possess an ...

People with anorexia nervosa and with body dysmorphic disorder have similar abnormalities in their brains that affect their ability to process visual information, a new UCLA study reveals. People with ...

New research suggests that if you hang in there for just a few minutes of meditation, your brain can start to shift in ...

This post was co-authored by Dr. Ruth Lanius, Lauren Rudolph, and Dr. Breanne Kearney. Trauma is an insult to the senses, leaving a lasting impact: It affects what we see, hear, and feel, and how we ...