Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

New research links inflammation to mental health symptoms. Personalized care using brain and immune data could improve symptoms when standard treatments don’t work.

The teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind ...

This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

Synaptic plasticity - the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning - is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington's disease, with a direct ...

Recent research indicates that bodily inflammation may disrupt the brain’s ability to process rewards and risks in American Indian adults who have experienced depression. The study found that higher ...

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...

Scientists have found that adding a missing phospholipid back into the bloodstream might help improve blood flow and reduce ...

For more than a century, Alzheimer’s disease has been framed as a slow catastrophe that begins inside the brain and stays ...

A new study showcases how brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between ourselves and the outside world ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...