Stimulation of the vagus nerve after exercise helped the mice to better consolidate motor skills: the effect appeared in the ...

For millions of children living with neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD, autism, and intellectual disability, the hardest battles are often fought not over medication schedules but over ...

Over the course of their lives, humans and other animals can learn to connect specific actions or cues to a desirable outcome. This process, called reward learning, is known to play a role in some ...

"What does the cerebellum do?" If you were asked that, "It's where you maintain balance" many people would probably answer. Of course, that is not wrong. The cerebellum is at the back of the brain. It ...

You are working hard, but you aren't getting the results you want. You can't meet deadlines, your desk remains cluttered, and you forget to reply to important emails. Looking at yourself like that, ...

After a brain injury, neural pathways can be seriously damaged. Like any other injury, the effects depend on the severity and location of the injury. A way the brain may adapt after injury is through ...

Previous work has shown that endurance training is associated with structural and functional plasticity in prefrontal, hippocampal, cerebellar and network level regions using both cross sectional and ...

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The cerebellum, the wizened “little brain” nestled in the base of the skull, may help keep us sharp as we age. Regions at the back of the cerebellum that resisted shrinkage with age were tied to ...

Long viewed mainly as a movement center, the cerebellum may play a critical role in cognitive resilience, with new MRI evidence linking its structure to sharper thinking in later life. Study: ...

The cerebellum is an area of the brain most frequently studied in coordinating the body’s movements, but researchers from the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence ...