A new study found that the leading environmental factor influencing brain structure and function is the socioeconomic status ...

Menopause has long been treated like a reproductive footnote. Neuroscience is revealing it may be one of the most ...

Working through the night may affect brain function, mood and mental well-being. A team of scientists explore how disrupted sleep patterns influence long-term health.

A child's family income and the neighborhood they grow up in may play a much bigger role in brain development than previously ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...

Physical exercise helps relieve symptoms of depression, and new evidence points to a specific protein released by muscles as ...

New USC research offers an unseen insight into how the brain shifts gears. The researchers have discovered that our innate ability to make quick changes in motor function is the result of a unique ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...

It’s easy to get caught up in tending to your weight or the look of your biceps — but don’t forget about gains for your brain ...

A new peanut butter study finds benefits for muscle strength, memory, and mood, with no weight gain observed in participants ...

Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans. An assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, she was part of a team studying 13 teens and ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...