McGill University researchers have identified a brain function that helps explain why childhood stress raises metabolic health risks for some women later in life. A new study found that variations in ...

To enable movement, perception, memory, reasoning, emotion and various other functions, the human brain heavily relies on ...

The roots of addiction risk may lie in how young brains function long before substance use begins, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine. The investigators found that children with a ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that the nervous system can influence tumors that arise within the brain itself. Neurons feed glioma growth, sensory experience can reshape brain tumor ...

Researchers at University of California, San Francisco and Imperial College London have shown that a single dose of psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms, causes likely ...

Scientists have revealed why you can read scrambled words so easily – and it offers a quirky insight into how our brains function. This effect, commonly referred to as 'typoglycemia', is often ...