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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...