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

Neurons that track which direction an animal faces can hold their firing patterns steady for months, even as other brain cells tied to spatial memory shift and rearrange. That finding, drawn from long ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists uncover how the human brain maintains a sense of direction, revealing key regions that guide navigation in dynamic ...

The stress hormone cortisol disrupts the brain's navigational system. It impairs the function of the grid cells that play a ...

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

The stress hormone cortisol disrupts the brain's grid cells, blurring the internal GPS system and impairing navigation.

Steven Weisberg, a researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington, put some of the most advanced artificial intelligence tools available to work on structural brain scans and found they could not ...

New work in fruit flies uncovers an electrical trick that allows neurons to compute direction efficiently by juggling multiple signaling mechanisms. These findings could reframe our understanding of ...

Nerve cells in the brain are constantly bombarded with information from different senses simultaneously. How can the brain prioritize what is most important?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists ran brain scans ...

Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your brain, specialized networks act like a compass, constantly recalibrating so ...