Understanding the gut-brain axis is key to addressing eating disorders. This study highlights microbiota's influence and ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly simple “tissue code”: five rules that choreograph when, where, and how cells divide, ...

Researchers have discovered hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the brain lining of individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar ...

A study found the brain adapts to conversation timescales, using overlapping systems for short exchanges and distinct ...

Brain dynamics and cognition share genetic roots. Criticality may guide future brain health research. A recent study published on June 24 in PNAS presents strong evidence that brain criticality—the de ...

New research reveals that soaring heat can overwhelm the brain’s delicate balance, leading to a surge in seizure activity and neurological emergencies.

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Michael C. Oldham shares his unconventional journey from advertising executive to computational neuroscientist and his ...

Last week, we posed a series of questions designed to make us think about a unique capacity common among human beings but nonexistent in the rest of the animal kingdom. That excellent characteristic ...

A groundbreaking study shows that the human hippocampus continues producing new neurons well into late adulthood.

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

A major study has found that psychopaths have markedly different brain structures to the rest of the population, offering ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...