Neuroscience shows traditional teaching is not enough. Instead, an experiential approach can return learning to its natural ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain, is now known to be ...

People with Parkinson's disease and their doctors confront many unknowns, including the answer to exactly how deep brain stimulation (DBS) relieves some of the motor symptoms patients experience. In a ...

If you scroll through TikTok or Instagram long enough, you'll inevitably stumble across the line: "Your frontal lobe isn't ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and a key Catholic bioethics group are both warning of a potential rewriting of U.S. law to broaden the definition of brain death, a revision ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 2024, “brain rot” was the Oxford word of the year. They defined it as “the supposed deterioration of a ...

When does the brain die? While the concept of brain death has been widely accepted by medical professionals since the late-1960s, significant questions about its precise nature still remain. The ...

(RNS) — Trust in secular U.S. health care institutions has been in free fall. In 2022, Gallup found that only 38% had a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in our medical system. Back in 1968, ...

Bilal Arshadullah is a biology major and biotechnology minor and a 2023-24 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. In 2013, ...