Most people think of the gut as a digestive organ. Something that processes food, absorbs nutrients, and occasionally causes ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

Recent research published in Circulation Research provides evidence that a specific molecule produced by gut bacteria can ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

A few years ago, doctors began noticing something unusual about many patients who were later diagnosed with Parkinson disease ...

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

The screen worked, flagging expected cancer genes. But it also kept returning something that seemed impossible: genes for synapses, glutamate receptors, and neural signaling pathways. “We absolutely ...

ME. AT MASS, GENERAL BRIGHAM RESEARCHERS ARE MAPPING ONE OF THE MOST VAST AND MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPES KNOWN TO SCIENCE A WORLD OF TRILLIONS OF CONNECTIONS. THE HUMAN BRAIN. WE HAVE MAPPED OUR ENTIRE ...

Paralysed people are already using brain-computer interfaces to turn their thoughts into text. But there are risks to this ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...