People who are stressed out have a harder time orienting themselves. A new study used neuroimaging to reveal why this happens ...

A new study published in Nature suggests that the neural foundations of spatial navigation—the brain's internal "GPS"—may have emerged far earlier in evolution than previously believed. The research, ...

Neurons that track which direction an animal faces can hold their firing patterns steady for months, even as other brain ...

New research reveals that while our memory centers are constantly shifting, our internal compass remains frozen in time to ...

New research shows stress impairs direction sense, weakening the brain’s navigation system and making it harder to stay ...

Stress hormone cortisol may disrupt grid cells in the brain, impairing spatial navigation and affecting the neural system ...

A new single-cell atlas shows how epigenetic changes reshape brain cells during aging, revealing genomic instability, ...