At clinically relevant exposures, turning that switch down in the brain was required for metformin to lower glucose, and tiny ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

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For decades, diagnosis of brain cancer has been medicine’s most difficult and hazardous challenge. Simple imaging such as MRI ...

Diabetes insipidus is very different from diabetes mellitus. It has nothing to do with blood sugar. Instead, the problem is ...

Dehydration spikes stress hormones. People who drank less than 1.5 liters of water daily showed a 50% increase in cortisol, ...

Scientists have long known that measuring brain glucose metabolism is a great way to detect declining brain function, but they haven’t yet found a non-invasive measuring tool. NAU researchers think ...

New research suggests that the most ancient evolutionary parts of the brain could be contributing to consciousness.

Researchers uncovered a new subtype of hypothalamic neurons, called Crabp1 neurons, that serve as powerful regulators of energy expenditure.

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

The brain never rests: even during deep sleep or under anesthesia, it maintains rhythmic electrical activity known as slow ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...