"Dizzy" and "off-balance" may seem interchangeable, but the sensations are unique and don't always accompany one another. For ...

The brain's ability to process information is known to be supported by intricate connections between different neuron ...

Understanding the body's need for balance can help make sense of how things go awry. We can manage acute stress, but when ...

Research shows that brain changes in college athletes can persist for up to a year after a concussion, even after they are ...

Falls are downstream of wear-and-tear to the physical systems integral to balance, most notably cognition. Older adults ...

Stanford researchers found that 48 hours is the maximum you can work in a week without losing so much productivity that you’d ...

Research shows that certain foods really can help with depression and stress. Here’s why—and which foods help most.

Just 5 minutes of this simple exercise can significantly lower your dementia risk. Discover the science behind it and how to ...

Walking backward fundamentally disrupts the brain’s deeply ingrained movement patterns. From early childhood, humans develop ...

One particularly intriguing feature of these networks is the balance between the activity of excitatory and inhibitory neurons, which has been observed across different brain regions." The key ...