Discovery of Brain-Body Connection Offers Clues for Parkinson’s and Alcohol Use Disorder When danger lurks, instinct keeps us ...

Brain fog is the result of “bad connections” between the gut and the brain, said Gerard Clarke, a professor of ...

Scientists have created a new way to map how brain cells connect by assigning each neuron a unique molecular “barcode.” Using ...

Every second you are awake, billions of synapses in your brain fire signals that let you think, move, and remember. But ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across longer timescales.

For years, mental health was seen as something that started and ended in the brain. But an expanding field of research is revealing a key player in the story of our emotions: the gut. The trillions of ...

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 ...

A new study from Austrian researchers suggests the brain begins life with an overly dense and disorganised network of ...

The human brain is constantly managing streams of information that move at very different speeds. Some signals require ...