The brain’s wiring forms a unique fingerprint that reveals how we think, remember, and make decisions. A new study offers the ...

Humans are social beings, and it shouldn’t be surprising that there are specific groups of nerve cells in the brain that are directly influenced by social experiences. One important mechanism ...

Scientists from the Nencki Institute and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have revealed a key mechanism in how our brains change when we learn new information or form memories. A new ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A researcher at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is shedding new light on the ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

New research shows that encapsulated probiotics improve memory, while non-encapsulated powder is better for reducing anxiety and depression.

Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: eranicle/Getty Images, ItziesDesign/Kipzy Kipza via Canva, Kimberling Jaramillo via Canva) For years, mental health was seen as something ...

Stem cells persist in the adult mammalian brain and generate new neurons throughout life. A research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel reports in the current issue of "Science" that ...

A large-scale study of 5216 brains has found differences in the brains of men and women that might be linked to social and other abilities. Stuart Ritchie and coworkers reported in the 2018 journal ...

Chronic stress can damage the gut’s protective lining, triggering inflammation that may worsen depression. New research shows that stress lowers levels of a protein called Reelin, which plays a key ...