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 ...

A novel @HopkinsKids study adds to evidence that a liver-damaging virus is linked to some psychiatric disorders. › ...

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 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 ...

Inspired by nature, scientists created a self-powered device that recognizes color just like our eyes, paving the way for advanced machine vision.

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

While the human brain has about one million times more neurons than that ... it is still an enormously complicated structure to study. To produce this groundbreaking map, the brain of a female adult ...