Brain/Neuroscience

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have discovered a common genetic variant that greatly impacts normal brain aging, starting at ...

Exercise...augments adult neurogenesis, which is the creation of new brain cells in an already mature brain...[R]esearchers at the University of ...

A gentle touch can make all the difference. Premature babies – who miss out on the sensory experiences of late ...

People with social anxiety avoid situations in which they are exposed to judgment by others. Those affected also lead a ...

Many people think that their adult brain is not capable of generating new cells...[However,] the reality is much more complex ...

What if lawyers could prove that a person knowingly committed a crime by looking at scans of his or her ...

When the heart stops, the body is declared dead, but this isn't always absolute...New research has now added another piece to the ...

All prospective parents should have carrier screening for a range of genetic disorders, according to new recommendations by the American ...

Noise is everywhere, but that’s OK. Your brain can still keep track of a conversation in the face of revving ...

Like us, plants possess receptors, microtubules and sophisticated intercellular systems that likely facilitate a degree of spatio-temporal consciousness. Instead of ...

Is there such a thing as having too much information about the health of your newborn? With the cost of ...

From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...

Duke University scientists have identified a mechanism in the molecular machinery of the cell that could help explain how neurons ...

"Talk therapy" has fallen out of fashion as being more art than science. But new research suggests that psychotherapy may ...

How can so many people believe things that are demonstrably false? The question has taken on new urgency as the ...

A couple strives to help their daughter, who was born with a rare form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth, a muscle-wasting disease that ...

Is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) a legitimate diagnosis or is it mostly a fraud? The answer has important implications ...

The skin cells of four adults with schizophrenia have provided an unprecedented "window" into how the disease began while they ...

Autism genes may have been conserved during human evolution because they make us smarter, say scientists. More inherited genetic variants ...

Celebrityhood does not equate with science knowledge. The opinions of music and media stars are no more relevant to the ...

Neuroscientists at Florida Atlantic University have been studying Mexican cavefish to provide insight into the evolutionary mechanisms regulating sleep loss ...

Neanderthals are still affecting what illnesses some people develop, how tall they are and how their immune systems work, despite ...

Gene discovery research is uncovering similarities and differences underlying a variety of disorders affecting the developing brain, including autism, attention ...

The objective is to construct the first comprehensive “cell atlas,” or map of human cells, a technological marvel that should ...

Bumblebees have learned to push a ball into a hole to get a reward, stretching what was thought possible for ...

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that a subset of genes involved in daily circadian rhythms, or the "biological ...

We know obsessive-compulsive disorder has a genetic basis, and now researchers are digging into our DNA to figure out exactly ...