My late father, Richard Bergland, M.D. (1932-2007) published The Fabric of Mind in 1986. For the book cover, dad insisted on a sagittal plane view; he liked how this vantage point elucidates major ...

Neuroscientists distinguish brain regions based on what they do, but now have a new way to overlay information about how they are built, too. To understand the massive capabilities and complexities of ...

More than a decade after Chad Robins and his brother Harlan co-founded Adaptive Biotechnologies to translate insights from the adaptive immune system into diagnostics and drugs, Robins, who is ...

Chemists have succeeded in mapping structures and functions of a transient enzyme state. By modifying the enzyme adenylate kinase, researchers were able to isolate the molecule and study it using the ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not engaged in physical activities, such as relaxing, resting or daydreaming.