Brain changes during menopause could help explain why some people experience neurological symptoms such as anxiety, ...

The study, published in Genomic Psychiatry, identified how stress hormones activate specific RNA molecules called long ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy has long been discussed as a possible driver of dementia, but proving that link has been ...

“To the best of our team's knowledge, this project represents the first time an Alabama medical center has examined deep ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Cambridge researchers have revealed a detailed picture of how the human brain grows from mid-pregnancy through the first ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

The largest study of its kind from the Boston University CTE Center reveals that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) ...

Hydrocephalus is a life-threatening condition that occurs in about 1 in 1,000 newborns and is often treated with invasive ...

Fear has a scent. Here’s how this invisible chemical signal has shaped human perceptions, emotions and survival instincts.