A new study has revealed how both reduced neural activity and reduced control over neural activity in the brain's prefrontal ...

Exposure to stress during critical developmental windows significantly increases the risk of developing mood and anxiety disorders in adulthood. While women and sexual- and gender-minority groups ...

Researchers have identified a remarkably small but critical piece of genetic code that helps determine how brain cells connect, communicate, and function. The discovery not only deepens our ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study suggests a major psychiatric risk gene remains important well into adulthood and may ...

It's one of nature's greatest ironies: the human brain lacks the ability to grasp its own complexity. Indeed, the brain is complicated. The three-pound organ housed in our heads consists of roughly 86 ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have demonstrated a new approach to brain imaging that enables continuous monitoring of ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...

ADHD is the most common neurobiological disorder in children. The key word being neurobiological. When in the throes of raising a neurodivergent child, it’s easy to forget that their behavior is ...

New research from the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine provides insight into how binge alcohol exposure during adolescence may cause lasting changes in brain function that ...

Google and Janelia Research Campus released a complete fruit fly brain connectome. The open-source dataset maps over 125 million synaptic connections.