They have proven themselves to be ribaldly revolting, perpetually perplexing, and endlessly entertaining. Geoffrey Chaucer immortalized them in literature, Samuel Johnson defined them in his ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

Oral contraceptives, also known as birth control pills, are used by more than 150 million women worldwide. Approximately one-third of teenagers in North America and Europe use them, making them the ...

BraDiPho is an innovative tool for the study of white matter connections in the human brain. A realistic map developed by a group of researchers from the University of Trento, the Provincial ...

An aortic aneurysm occurs when a weak aortic wall stretches, causing it to bulge. An aortic dissection occurs when there’s a tear in the aortic wall, which can be fatal if not treated immediately. The ...

The Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) in the Institute of Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, Korea, is developing new neuroimaging approaches to explore biophysics, physiology, and biology, and ...

A recent study published in the Communications Biology Journal summarized the knowledge of brain anatomy from fossil records and brain evolution. Because the brain does not fossilize like bones and ...

That’s what they say, right? It’s something I’m sure is true as often as not, but I believe such encounters should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. That belief has only been validated upon ...

Scientists have identified nanoscale lymphatic-like vessels - a network that may help explain how fluids and waste move through brain tissue.