Most people think of the gut as a digestive organ. Something that processes food, absorbs nutrients, and occasionally causes ...

A few years ago, doctors began noticing something unusual about many patients who were later diagnosed with Parkinson disease ...

The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel.

Recent research published in Circulation Research provides evidence that a specific molecule produced by gut bacteria can ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

ME. AT MASS, GENERAL BRIGHAM RESEARCHERS ARE MAPPING ONE OF THE MOST VAST AND MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPES KNOWN TO SCIENCE A WORLD OF TRILLIONS OF CONNECTIONS. THE HUMAN BRAIN. WE HAVE MAPPED OUR ENTIRE ...

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 research analyzed brain scans from patients with major depressive disorder who were not taking antidepressants, isolating ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

The screen worked, flagging expected cancer genes. But it also kept returning something that seemed impossible: genes for synapses, glutamate receptors, and neural signaling pathways. “We absolutely ...