Researchers have developed a cutting-edge technique that uses RNA “barcodes” to map how neurons connect, capturing thousands ...

Cognitive decline, mental health and heart disease are all shaped by the deep links between heart and brain – with major ...

A hidden waste-removal pathway in the brain has finally been caught in action. Using cutting-edge MRI scans, researchers ...

Plus, demand for breakthroughs in this field is high. Over 3 billion people live with a neurological condition, making it the ...

"When engineering a computer, you need to know the circuitry of the central processing unit. If you don't know how everything is wired together, you can't understand its function, optimize it or fix ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly large reserve of “silent synapses” in the adult brain—unused neural connections that can be rapidly activated to store new memories.

Patel and colleagues took 20 healthy adults and dropped them into a seven-day retreat that was part classroom, part monastery ...

Stress resilience isn’t a flatline. It’s a flex, according to new research from Florida International University. Marcelo Bigliassi, assistant professor of psychophysiology, and Ph.D. student Dayanne ...

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 ...

Anxiety and IBS are not separate conditions but intertwined signals of a disrupted gut-brain axis that millions misunderstand ...

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 ...