Climber Alex Honnold is set to scale one of the world's tallest buildings without any ropes or safety nets.

Alex Honnold's brain shows no fear response during extreme climbing stunts. This neuroscientific insight reveals how repeated exposure rewires the perception of danger.

Obtaining clearer functional MRI data about the brain and its disorders is possible using artificial intelligence, according to Boston College researchers who report in Nature Methods that they have ...

Alex Honnold's unusually high REM sleep could be the reason why the free-solo climber remains calm in life-threatening heights. Here's what science says.

A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences changes dramatically as we age. Members of Alison Preston’s research group study fMRI brain ...

In brains of control mice (left) and PD mice (right), from bottom to top: neuronal activity in a representative animal; cerebral blood flow mapping; fMRI of visual stimulation; fMRI of olfactory ...

'Practice makes perfect' may be a cliché but a new brain study out of York U affirms this age old theory. In this study, Faculty of Health researchers were looking at fMRI brain scans of professional ...

A new study suggests that a little-known region deep in the brain could be crucial for preserving physical strength as we age ...