A new study suggests that significant early childhood exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is associated with structural changes in the brain at the age…
Brain-Cell Helpers Powered by Norepinephrine During Fear-Memory Formation A sustained state of vigilance will generate a different type of memory than a momentary startle, and…
Reducing dangerous swelling in traumatic brain injury: Injected nanoparticles reduce swelling and secondary brain damage in preclinical research. ‘We believe this may provide the first…
A new study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (JAD) on January 13, 2020, supports a growing body of research that links human exposure…
America’s most widely consumed oil, soybean oil, linked to metabolic and neurological changes in mice. New University of California Riverside research shows soybean oil not…
Flame Retardants and Pesticides Overtake Heavy Metals As Biggest Contributors to IQ Loss Adverse outcomes from childhood exposures to lead and mercury are on the…
As you read this line, you’re bringing each word into clear view for a brief moment while blurring out the rest, perhaps even ignoring the…
Small RNAs Link Immune System and Brain Cells Recent studies have found a high genetic similarity of the psychiatric diseases schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, whose…
As our brains take in information about the world and use it to steer our actions, two key principles guide our choices: seek pleasure and…
Possible dementia vaccine closer after mice studies; Human trials tipped within two years. A preventive treatment for dementia may proceed to clinical trials after successful…
Less than 10% of neurons in the mouse visual system behave the way scientists thought most such cells work to perceive the outside world. A…
The UNC School of Medicine lab of Zoe McElligott, PhD, found that alcohol consumption is regulated by the activity of a particular set of neurons…
Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct groups — an outcome…
Scarring in their brain’s white matter does more harm than previously thought. It’s quite possible that you are one of those people with white spots…
Lancaster University researchers have discovered, for the first time, how a genetic alteration that increases the risk of developing Autism and Tourette’s impacts on the…
There have been many headlines in recent years about the potentially negative impacts contact sports can have on athletes’ brains. But a new Northwestern University…
Study shows that people can boost attention by manipulating their own alpha brain waves. Having trouble paying attention? MIT neuroscientists may have a solution for…
Researchers studying the brain found that women taking oral contraceptives, commonly known as birth control pills, had significantly smaller hypothalamus volume, compared to women not…