Fatigue and brain fog due to long COVID: What’s going wrong in the brain?
It is possible that an inflammatory reaction in the brain and a change in energy management cause many complaints in long COVID.
It is possible that an inflammatory reaction in the brain and a change in energy management cause many complaints in long COVID.
As grown-ups, we easily tend to get bored when falling into a form of routine. Children, on the contrary, are very much into repetitions. This developmental difference is at the core of the way we process and interpret the world with experience.
The series “The Last of Us” (based on the video game) brought a scary and post-apocalyptic scenario to our screens: that of a fungal pandemic in which infected people turn into zombies with the sole goal of spreading the fungus to the uninfected. It makes for a very compelling horror story, but is any of it rooted in reality or is it all just imagination? The answer lies somewhere in between.
It’s happened to the best of us: you are running late to a doctor’s appointment,
The amount of the brain chemical dopamine might explain mindless actions.
An atlas is a collection of maps, often containing different kinds of information about countries,
Is immortality a myth? Maybe for humans, but not for these animals!
You cannot talk with your mouth full, so how do people combine talking and drinking?
Aging causes the volumes of our brains to decrease, which mostly affects our memory and thinking capacities. But you might be able to slow down this aging by living healthfully.
Our bodies are filled with water molecules coursing through the cells and tissues of every organ—including the brain and each of its neurons. Diffusion-weighted imaging can capture that movement at the microscopic level. These days, it’s widely used by scientists and clinicians alike to map the white matter tracts in the brain.