Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has ...

A new analysis of the brain’s intrinsic communication networks suggests a layered organization behind human intelligence. The ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain’s wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June ...

Over the last decade, scientists have found that elevated blood PFAS levels can lead to adverse health outcomes, including ...

Down syndrome results in changes to the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain. Delivering a specific protein ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many ...

The brain’s cerebellum plays a key role in coordinating movement, balance, and cognition. Injury to the cerebellum can have a profound impact on basic motor skills, such as sitting, standing, and ...

Brain volume and function are altered in individuals with opioid use disorder, a new Yale study finds. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI), researchers observed the ...

Researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, and Örebro University, Sweden, have discovered that the levels of PFAS in mothers’ blood during pregnancy is associated ...