Recent preclinical advances expose how the gut microbiome impacts the maintenance of brain health through the ...

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

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.

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much ...

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 ...

An innovative global study has unveiled unexpected findings regarding the brains of young individuals facing mental health challenges. Researchers examined nearly 9,000 brain scans from children and ...