Exercise helps boost brain health, one study shows. Here, researchers and experts explain the findings, plus share the ...

Microglia help protect the brain from damage and infection, but when they become overly active, they can also contribute to ...

The pandemic lockdown had a “real lasting impact” on the brain health of people over 50, researchers have suggested. A study by the University of Exeter and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & ...

The best brain exercises for memory require working your mind and your body, according to research and experts. Here's what ...

Creatine plays a vital role in the body's energy system, but it also points to effects beyond "energy" that help brain and ...

Macaques are often studied because their brains share many similarities with human brains. However, this study revealed an ...

As crucial as our brains are to our ability to function, they don’t get nearly the attention that certain muscle groups (or even wrinkles) do. Unless we’re dealing with a serious condition, most of us ...

The brain carries out a huge variety of tasks every day. This includes receiving and processing information about the environment and taking actions based on thoughts, feelings and perceptions. The ...

A stressful year leads to anxiety. Lasting isolation gives way to depression. An old trauma nags until it becomes paralyzing.

A paper just published in Nature Human Behaviour makes some big claims about the brain. It's called Evidence for a large-scale brain system supporting allostasis and interoception in humans, but how ...

Adolescence is the time when most mental health problems arise. Diagnoses of psychiatric illnesses increase across the board, with teenagers suffering not only from mood disorders such as depression, ...

The roots of addiction risk may lie in how young brains function long before substance use begins, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine. The investigators found that children with a ...