For decades, scientists have known that what harms the body often harms the brain. Conditions such as obesity, high blood pressure, and insulin resistance strain the body’s vascular and metabolic ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

New research links inflammation to mental health symptoms. Personalized care using brain and immune data could improve ...

Scientists have found that adding a missing phospholipid back into the bloodstream might help improve blood flow and reduce ...

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...

For more than a century, Alzheimer’s disease has been framed as a slow catastrophe that begins inside the brain and stays ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

Recent research indicates that bodily inflammation may disrupt the brain’s ability to process rewards and risks in American Indian adults who have experienced depression. The study found that higher ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...