A massive brain imaging study has found that subtle differences in the brain structure of people taking antidepressants are largely explained by the severity of their depression, rather than the ...

Researchers studying 353 cognitively unimpaired adults aged 60 to 94 found that higher muscular capacity was associated with lower basal ganglia perivascular space volume, while greater aerobic ...

People living with a severe form of asthma show subtle differences in the structure of their brains compared with people ...

Researchers from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of ...

Existing three-dimensional (3D) neuronal culture technology has limitations in brain research due to the difficulty of precisely replicating the brain's complex multilayered structure and the lack of ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in great part influenced by genetics. Past research has identified various genes ...

Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty in which genes often play a role. How do genes associated with dyslexia relate to brain structure in the general population? In a large-scale study, a team of ...

Albert Einstein transformed modern physics and challenged the legacy of Isaac Newton himself. Throughout his years of study and research, he demonstrated what is widely considered one of the most ...

Baby brain who? Here’s how a woman’s brain literally evolves to prepare for motherhood – and why a little ‘shrinkage’ is ...

Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...

Scientists challenge the lizard brain myth, revealing two distinct neural systems that may explain how mammalian brains ...

A new review presented at The Menopause Society’s annual meeting breaks down the changes that happen in the brain during menopause. These adaptations could be behind the brain fog that some women ...